Samsung SE-208DB/TSBS Slim Portable DVD Writer, USB Powered, Win/Mac, Black

2014-03-10T21:00:00

Plug and play; reasonable speed for size and price. Does not burn my memorex DL discs. It dies on the second layer. I need to find a brand of discs that works with it. Had no problem with single layer though. Also needs its own USB cable. I was swapping around cables for some external hard drives and I plugged the wrong USB cable back into it - the drive wouldn't read any discs. Not sure what is so special about the cable, but keep that in mind. Other than that, it's a lot cheaper than getting Apple's external drive for the newer iMacs.

brett

2014-02-24T19:00:00

Works properly with my Macs (OSX 10.6 thru 10.9). Even gets power from an older MacBook without issue. Only downside is the shiny "piano black" surface; to avoid fingerprints I simply left the thin plastic (factory applied) "skin" in place. I've bought a number of these units for clients who have moved to the newest Macs without built-in optical drives.

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