Premium Aluminum External USB 3.0 UHD 4K Blu-Ray Writer Super Drive for PC and Mac by Archgon Review

I bought this drive a while ago to use later for my personal Blu-ray and DVD playback. I had watched a few seasons of DVDs for the show when it started having trouble reading one of the discs. I took this disc out and noticed a band of light scratches about an inch wide around the center of the disc, which struck me as odd since I keep it in a protective case and generally handle it with care. This prompted me to check out other discs in this series and everything I looked at on this disc had…

I really liked this player at first. Our movie collection is mostly Blu-Ray and plays it perfectly. We loved the reading speed and it played 2 of our UHD movies flawlessly. We bought this disc solely for its ability to play UHD discs. However, it could not play any of the remaining 20 UHD discs. There are some compatibility issues that (unfortunately) force us to return this player. I'm giving it 4 stars because I think it's probably a "too early for this technology" issue. We would suspect our

So my previous external Blu-ray drive failed and I was looking for a new one. I stumbled across this product and after reading the good reviews I decided to give it a try. I already had another UHD drive in my unraid tower but figured why not check it out for the future and spend some extra money to get it. It works! If you know what to do. I can't give this a full 5 star rating as you have to for it to read UHD 4K discs. It doesn't come with the firmware version you want, so you'll need a PC…

I bought this mainly to copy my new UHD drives, make backups and upload them to my NAS for media playback in June 2019. Although it worked mostly after flashing it to firmware version 1.00, I still had a lot of read errors with this drive and had to keep trying until I had a decent copy. It read almost any standard BluRay I threw at it, but it struggled with UHD discs. Just recently I bought Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection, The Hobbit: Trilogy and Lord of the Rings: Trilogy on 4K UHD…

I am now using my third Archgon Premium Aluminum External USB 3.0 UHD Blu-ray Writer Super Driver for Apple MacBook (APED) in about the same number of years. The first, used sparingly and regularly, if not constantly, lasted about two years before plain DVDs started freezing or skipping. The second didn't crack for more than eight months, after which I received an 80% refund from Revain after returning the goods. I've been using number 3 for about three months. So far, so good. I don't expect…