Review on High-Performance Blu-Ray Player Laptop External USB DVD RW Burner Drive: Unleash Superior Media Capabilities by Sam Duppa

I chose this to have Blu-ray discs on my Mac as part of my recent project "keep all my DVDs etc in iTunes" to secure. ". According to the system information, these are the specifications of the drive: PIONEER BD-ROM BDC-TD03: Firmware Version: 1.00 Connection: USB Burning Support: Yes (general drive support) Profile Path: No Cache: 4000 KB DVD Read: Yes CD - Burning: -R, -RW DVD Burning: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW Burning strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD- Raw, DVD - DAOBased on from what everyone is saying it looks like the company will pick any 2x drive model they want and pack it into one case so who knows what you'll get My conclusions so far: - NO additional power cord required when running over a regular USB 2.0 plug @ 500mA - The second power cord doesn't do anything when plugged in, although it might be needed for DVD burning? I'm investigating it.(Update: not needed for disc burning.) - The drive is reading Blu-ray discs faster than 2x I consistently show 14.4 MB/s (or 3 ,3x) - Cheap plastic case - Front LED doesn't seem to work at all on mine, I don't know yu if the case only has a hole for one, but the drive doesn't have it, or it's broken. The second power cord doesn't change that - Comes with a burned CD with drivers for Windows - Works great on Mac OS + Toast 11. No drivers etc. Obviously just as a storage device - You can't play videos without copying using MakeMKV. But I'm sure you knew. :DUPDATE: I've had the disc for a few months now and it seems to have lost its ability to read CD/DVD (Blu-ray discs still seem to work fine, albeit with some reading errors - but it's probably Netflix discs ). I took off a star for him because he's probably going to die soon. Has anyone else had this problem with a CD/DVD? The disc will simply eject after a few seconds. Pioneer says my drive is covered by a 1 year warranty but as this is an OEM drive it is up to the retailer. Yeah I think if that one is completely dead I'll just grab another disc - maybe a burner.