LG Electronics DVDRW DVD-RAM Drive External Optical Drives GP65NS60 Silver

I grabbed this when the Superdrive in my eight year old iMac bit the dust. I didn't have the $80-odd dollars an external Mac drive costs, and was hoping that for the price I'd at least get SOME good use out of this one. And so far, so good. Admittedly, I've only had this burner for about six weeks. But in those six weeks, I've already burned over a dozen disks. The drive is reasonably quick and pretty quiet. And every disk so far has burned perfectly. I've also used it to watch a couple DVDs and to upload a couple CDs to iTunes. Again, so far everything worked fine. I haven't needed the included software as it was plug-and-play with my Mac. It is basically all plastic, so it's probably not realistic to expect a long life. But I'm one who usually treats his toys with kid gloves, so I'm hoping to get a decent run out of it. If I don't, I'll let you know! UPDATE (1/25/18) --- Approximately a year has gone by since my review. In that time I've burned roughly 200 DVDs (far more then I had planned on) and watched maybe a dozen movies. To date, I haven't had a single burned disk fail, and my little LG burner is humming along like nobody's business!! My initial thought with this burner was to pray I'd get six months out of it, then get another one. I certainly didn't expect this. This is undoubtedly the best $26 I've ever invested. On anything. I'd add another star if I could! UPDATE (12/12/18) --- Not quite to the two year anniversary of my purchase, and my LG drive is still running like new. I haven't used it as much the second half of this year, but it still answers flawlessly when called upon. My daughter started college this fall, and got one for herself to use with her MacBook. So she's a believer as well. UPDATE (02/02/20) --- Over three years on, and going strong! To be fair, as a general rule, I'm not working my burner too hard. But between my daughter's wedding and some other uses, I've probably burned 50-odd disks the last six months, and have had zero issues. In fact, I've probably burned 350 or so disks total, and I've had maybe two disks that didn't work. And frankly, in both instances, I think I had suspect disks. The best money I ever spent. Period.

UPDATE, April 2022: So now I've lost count of how many times I have used this LG Electronics External Drive, for copying CDs to my computer and also to burn computer files to CD media. If I had to guess, I would say it's been used a thousand times minimum, probably more. Still works like new, never a problem reading or burning anything. Lots of miles on this thing now, and performs flawlessly. I'd recommend this one and would definitely buy it again. FIRST UPDATE: After using this LG Electronics External Drive for a couple of months, I just could not be more pleased with it. I've already used it several hundred times. The built-in CD/DVD drive in my desktop computer stopped working after less than 3 years, although I did use it a lot- and I mean a whole lot. I wanted something simple to replace it with, easy to use, and with no bells and whistles and no internal storage. INITIAL REVIEW: When I received this, I plugged this drive into a USB port, and that's all there was to it! Windows Media Player immediately recognized this drive, and my other downloaded CD ripping program just needed one simple settings change click to recognize the drive. I would say this LG Electronics External Drive is comparably fast at ripping and burning CDs as the old one that came on my computer. I have not and likely will not use it to play or burn DVDs, so I cannot comment on that, however my guess is it will work fine for DVDs as well. It does sound a bit louder when operating than my computer's built-in CD/DVD drive, which I expected, as it is an external drive without the metal computer housing around it to pad the sound. I would not say operation is excessively loud, it is perfectly acceptable. The size is nice and small, and although it is light weight the 4 rubber pads on the bottom do a decent job at keeping it from sliding around on the top of my desk. Another review said this comes without a USB cable, which is not the case- included in the package box is a 2 foot mini USB cable. I bought a 3 foot cable thinking it would not come with a cable, but rest assured it does come with one. One cable is plenty powerful to both operate and power this drive with- no second USB connection is needed. There is also a programming CD included, which I'm not sure what is on it, and I doubt I will ever use it because this drive is doing everything I need it to do just out of the box. So, so far so good. It is working great and has been reliable so far. Who's to say whether or not it will last for years, or may not develop problems in the future. Most electronics do. But for less than 30 dollars, it was a good investment, and for ease of operation I feel it would be hard to beat. I know some of the reviews are negative, but so are several reviews on every external drive offered on Amazon. My initial impression is to give this one a try, I think You'll like it. I ordered it one day, and it arrived the next day, which is also a plus.

Tried this with an old CD with a lot of scratches and it works really well, so super happy about that. I would say the price is very fair also. I'm giving it 4 starts because the USB cable it uses is an older standard that could be a pain to replace if lost or damaged.

Ok, first off......let me vent about how no computer company installs Cd/DVD player/Writers anymore. Yeah, I'm getting older! So.....I ended up getting this little bugger to play some old dvd movies I own. Not every movie is available on streaming services, so you need one of these. It's quiet, loads fast, comes with the software cd you need to use it. It's a CyberLink something, you can download it for free too. Overall this player works great, easy to use, the usb cord is plenty long for placement on top of my pc tower. Oh, did I mention it's tiny too. About 3/4 of the size of a DVD movie case. Yep, tiny. I cannot attest to burning anything with it, but it plays well!!

Pretty trouble free way to play my old CD collection on the computer. No issues, sounds fine. I was looking at HiFi models that were hundreds of dollars. I have a nice audio interface, and studio quality speakers, and I have not heard anything wrong with this. Just the opposite, its been nice to hear some of my old collection on the nice sound system.

Works great. Great quality!

Works great. No major problems. Maybe a little difficult to put the CD or DVD in the unit. But similar to other DVD/CD r/w units. Comes with software on CD. I did not use the software so I cannot comment on that. Would buy again.

I bought this to replace an older LG external drive which wasn't compatible with Win10 (although it still works fine on Win 7 after many years). This unit is smaller and lighter than the previous one I had. It feels a little less solid perhaps, but works fine and is completely painless to use - simple plug and play in Win 10. It's exactly fit for purpose (in my case, reading and writing a DVD from time to time).

Es el segundo que adquiero de esta marca, se adapta excelente a la MAC. Velocidad de grabado excelente, no es ruidoso, ligero.Es lo que necesitaba.

Software was easily installed & instruction was precise, work well and hassle free. Love it!

Lo uso para mi trabajo, donde aun estamos con el uso de CDs para recibir información y la verdad por la calidad-precio y marca lo preferí a las marcas genéricas de lectores. Lo comparé con otros y al menos a mi no me ha fallado en leer ningún disco, en especifico para ver radiografias y Tomográfias. Sin duda recomiendo invertir un poco más por un mejor producto que productos sin marcas conocidas y el color hace que se sepa de quien es jajaja, porque sin duda sobresale con el resto

Connected to MacBook Pro without install or anything prefect