Pioneer BDR-XD07S 6x Slim Portable External USB 3.0 BD/DVD/CD Burner Review

I really like the clamshell design. And it burns discs perfectly from my laptop. I know this company has had issues with some of their external drives and their customer service is unreliable. So I hope this rating keeps five stars.

I looked through several model reviews and chose this model because it turned out to be Pioneer's latest model. It worked out of the box on Windows 7 and Windows 10, no drivers to download. I have tested it with CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs played. I have BD-R M discs but haven't tested them yet. I needed to collect enough files to burn a 25GB disc. The player is fast as expected. It tends to vibrate when you run and does run on the surface when you run, but I cut out a piece of grip pad to put it

I have about 40 Blu-rays and all but 2 are copied very well. The hard drives themselves proved to be a problem. I read that the device was fragile so I worked very well with it and it worked very well with the two copy apps I use on it.

Drive copies CDs no other drive can. It's fast but sometimes LOUD and doesn't contain any Cyberlink software or website links.

Found this quality Pioneer actuator at Revain for a really good price. Other sellers want more money for the same thing. This drive can play worn DVDs with special driver software that needs to be downloaded from Pioneer's website. I use Cyberlink DVD 20 to play movies. Blu-ray is good too. Sorry it doesn't play Blue Ray 4K but I don't have a 4K system anyway.

I wanted to watch my Blu-ray collection on my 2016 MacBook Pro 15 and bought this Pioneer BDR-XD07S from B&H. Since I use a Mac, I bought this silver XD07S optical drive model instead of the XD07B model, which is the same drive with a black cover, bundled with Windows software only. As Blu-ray playback software, I bought Blu-ray Player Pro from Macgo website. The combination works very well straight away when playing BDs. The drive has a sheet metal base and looks solid and high quality. I…

Nice addition to an old PC with only a DVD player/burner. If I connect a USB player to the 3.0 port, I can access Blu-ray on my PC. I had to update my PC software to play Blu-rays with different DRM encoding than the old DVDs. The Pioneer player works well with old DVDs. I skip less and look for clues. A great addition as it is portable and can be moved to any PC instead of being blocked on my desktop PC.