| | |  | HP Ink Cartridges | Home » » » External USB 8X DVD +/-RW Dual Layer Burner for PC or Laptop | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Description:Speed: 24x CD/CD-R/CD-RW (read) 24x CD-R (write) 24x CD-RW (write) 8x DVD (read) 8x DVD (write). Supported CD Formats: CD Text CD Extra CD-DA (audio) CD-ROM XA Photo CD CD-ROM. Supported Media Types: CD-ROM CD-R CD-RW DVD-R DVD-RW DVD+RW DVD+R DVD+R DLMedia Load Type: Tray. Enclosure Type: External. Enclosure Color: blank. Powered from the computer's USB port no AC adapter required. Dimensions (WxDxH): 5.6" x 6.1" x 0.75". Weight: 0.9 lbs . Software Requirement: Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP/VistaUSB 2.0 External Rewriteable DVD +/- RW Drive is so slim that you can put it into your pocket! No additional AC adapter and software needed supports plug and play this portable external DVD burner lets you can instantly watch DVDs and create DVDs CDs with your notebooks tablet PCs and desktop PCs. Featuring fast DVD record speeds the Slim DVD+/-RW Drive burns at 8x speeds in DVD-R and DVD+R formats.Plug and play no additional software drivers needed. USB 2.0 Interface. | | | Features: | |
• Plug and play, no additional software drivers needed. USB 2.0 Interface.
• Speed: 24x CD/CD-R/CD-RW (read), 24x CD-R (write), 24x CD-RW (write), 8x DVD (read), 8x DVD (write). Supported CD Formats: CD Text, CD Extra, CD-DA
• Media Load Type: Tray. Enclosure Type: External. Enclosure Color: Black. Powered from the computer's USB port. Dimensions (WxDxH): 5.6" x 6.1" x 0.75"
• USB 2.0 External Rewriteable DVD +/- RW Drive is so slim that you can put it into your pocket! No additional AC adapter and software needed
• Brand new, one year warranty!
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 113 reviews |
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94 of 96 found the following review helpful:
 Bought this one based on these reviewsJan 30, 2009
By Captain
I bought this external optical drive for my new Asus 1000h based on the well written and convincing reviews here, and even though the Targus at twice the price is always promoted along with the Asus and Acer netbooks. (My Asus rocks by the way) Just like the other reviews say, I plugged in the power cord (runs off of 1 usb) and the data cord (another of the 3 Asus usb's) and the Asus recognized it immediately and I began downloading software cd's for my new Canon dslr. Then I watched a movie dvd. That was it. Didn't need the driver cd. Also comes with a LG DVD Writer Solution DVD if you need/want it. I'm pretty picky, and this unit exceeded my expectations. It's perfect. And thanks to the previous reviewers, you were spot on and saved me almost $100.
42 of 43 found the following review helpful:
Tiny external DVD a perfect fit to my Eee PC-1000HEMar 22, 2009
By John P. Toscano
I bought this external DVD player/burner drive for my Asus Eee PC-1000HE netbook conmputer, which has no built-in optical drive. Although I don't expect to use it heavily, it has already proved its worth by making it incredibly simple to replace the hard drive in the netbook with a SSD drive. With the Asus recovery disc in the drive and a blank SSD, the netbook booted from the DVD drive, and the recovery disk did all the rest of the work in transforming the empty SSD to a fully-configured and bootable hard drive.
The drive has had no trouble reading any CD or DVD disc that I've put in it, as long as I plug in BOTH of the USB cables -- one for data, and the other to provide additional +5 volt power. As far as burning goes, so far I have only tried one burn of a DVD+R/DL disc, and was a little surprised. The discs say that they are 8x but Nero refused to burn at anything other than 2.4x speed. And the burn failed the rescan test. So then I put another of these blank discs into the Sony DVD drive on my desktop PC, and got the same results! As it turns out, the bargain discs I had bought (not from Amazon) were really only rated as 2.4x and they are apparently a lower quality than I had thought, in spite of the markings on the external packaging. So, I guess I can't blame this external DVD drive for the burn failure, it seems to be a problem with my cheap media. I will eventually get around to testing it with better blank discs, but I'm betting it will work out okay.
The drive itself it incredibly tiny, not much bigger than a couple of CD jewel cases stacked together! Along with the diminutive size comes very low weight. These are good attributes to have in a DVD drive to be used on a netbook computer. The case is fairly thin metal, so you don't want to press down on the top of the drive very hard when opening or closing the door, with a little care it should last a long time.
It is a real plus that you don't need any batteries or AC adapter to run this drive, just two USB ports on your computer so the second connection can be made to provide extra power. Some computers might put out enough current through each USB socket that you could get by with using only one port, but probably not in a laptop. If you find the use of two USB ports to be a problem, you can find small AC adapters that convert wall current to 2 to 4 USB power-only ports, and could use one of those to provide the extra 5 volt current if you are short on USB ports.
I used mine on a Windows XP system, and did not have to use any drivers of any sort to make it be recognized. In fact, as already noted, the eee PC 1000HE was able to boot from the DVD drive at a time when there was no operating system at all installed in the netbook computer, just a completely blank Solid State Disk drive, so I find it hard to believe that other OS's like Vista could not operate this device easily as at least one review has stated, but while I had zero difficulty, YMMV (and I have not tried Vista myself).
Highly recommended.
40 of 42 found the following review helpful:
It works!Jan 17, 2009
By Chimp Chimperson
"Chimp Chimperson"
I bought this to use with my Asus 904ha netbook. It works great! It is plug and play with XP, just as the other reviewers said. It's thin and light for easy travel. Powered off of your USB, which is very cool. It burns and plays CDs and DVDs just fine. And it was super cheap, too!
I have also used it on other computers running on Vista. It worked fine on those as well.
The directions included are pretty much incomprehensible (very poorly translated...in fact it was kind of comical) But, that didn't matter, since it worked as soon as I plugged it in. And it also included a disc with drivers. Again, it wasn't needed.
I'd recommend this product. In fact, I might even buy another.
28 of 28 found the following review helpful:
 Problem when using Vista on ThinpadFeb 22, 2009
By jelarv
"jelv"
I purchased this based on the positive feedback at Amazon.com, but it worked irratically with my laptop which is only one week old and running Vista. The device wasn't plug-and-play. Instead I needed to have the driver disk in the drive when plugging it in and then Vista had to find the drive and install it. About 50% of the time the computer recognized the drive and about 50% it didn't, which required reboots until it recognized it. Unfortunately the product documentation is almost non-existant (a 3x4 one-sided index card) and there's no reference to a website for help. The disk door didn't close smoothly and needed a bit of a push which suggested to me poor workmanship or materials.
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Working well with Acer Aspire OneFeb 25, 2009
By H. Chang
I bought a sony DVD burner before--for my Sony UMPC. Sony surely was good, only...expensive. After I bought Acer Aspire One (1G Ram, 160G HDD), I found out that Acer didn't have a firewire port for my Sony DVD burner. Beside of it, I didn't want to take my Acer Netbook with many AC adapters. (Sony's burner needs it. What is your propose to buy a small netbook? or UMPC?) Then, I found this DVD burner with the best price and very slim as same as Sony's. After a month uses, I can say that this DVD burner is better than Sony's. Light weight, no AC needed, fast enough. It was working well with my DELL 6400 laptop, Sony UMPC and Acer netbook. (I am a computer teacher. Surely all my toys are XP's.) I did burn a DVD few weeks ago. No problem with it! The package also gave you two software CDs. One was for the driver, but I didn't need to use it. The other was for program software (included Nero, PowerDVD...) Sorry, I cannot write English very well as same as the Manual of the DVD burner ...:)
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