Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE-KIT 24x Internal CD DVD±R/RW Dual Layer Disc Burner Drive Writer + Nero 12 Essentials + Sata Cable Kit

Purchased 2 drives, installed them using the supplied SATA cables and one of the power connectors supplied with the drives. Both installed easily plug and play. Drivers that Windows 7 loaded for the drives were the same as the ones for my old ribbon IDE DVD drives that were connected and jumpered as master / slave.Excellent drives, very quiet and fast - I've experienced no read or write errors to date.Reads/Records CDs and Single & Dual Layer DVDsI had no need to load the Nero software. Sticker on Nero disc does read " this software will not expire.

I could not install Windows 10 because my DVD drive did not support dual layer. So, I purchased this Samsung drive, which supports dual layered disks. The DVD srive kit provided what was needed for an easy installation. Using this new drive, I could boot my system from my Windows 10 disk. I am pleased with drive as it continues to work as expected.

I bought this for older Dell 4700 computer w/ win XP. Have a lot of games and productive software that I still use and love. The older optical drive would occasionally stutter and lockup mostly during game play. My older drive used the big flat cable interface. However I found that I had an empty SATA port, Hooray. (SATA is rated faster). Computer is now faster, quieter, and with no game or software lag. I chose Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE-KIT 24x Internal CD writer because it was the only one that had a 1.5 MB buffer memory. I could not find the specs listed for the others. Very happy with purchase. Also Nero 12 has a sticker on the CD sleeve that says "This Trial Version Will NOT Expire after 30 days".?? I have not installed, maybe they are saying its a watered down version that works.

I have an old DVD that could not be read at all by my samsung blu-ray console machine. I couldn't read the disk at all with a Pioneer, Asus, or LiteOn DVD ROM/Writer. I have a handful of DVD-Rs with scratched or degraded areas on the discs that cannot be read. I read that this drive was one of the better DVD ROM drives for reading bad discs and I decided to give it a try. I was able to read and backup the DVD that was unreadable by any other drive. I was also able to read most of the bad areas of my other discs that the other readers could not. This was a relatively cheap investment to recover some old DVDs and it also works great as a DVD writer.

I went back and forth on whether or not I needed a disc drive, and finally settled thinking that I'd rather have one and not need it, than need one and not have it. I wasn't looking for a feature-rich drive, just something that could read the occasional install disc for those programs that weren't digital download style. Drive is quiet during use, with only the slight run up noise when a disc is being read. Drive opens fast, and closes just as quick. It does what I need it to do, and that's just swell.

The product works..its very quiet..but its very slow..took hours to burn a disk ..I'm use to quicker burns.

DOA.Sent back for a refund after being hooked up to multiple PCs to ensure that it was dead. If you want a drive that will open but do absolutely nothing else, then this is the drive for you! Was incapable of reading/recognizing anything. Mind you, this was also the case after I located new firmware/drivers for the device and tried those as well. Did my best to give this thing the benefit of the doubt. Ended up just pulling an old Lite-On out of another PC for my needs.

Works well. The sata cable that it came with was no good but I had a new one laying around. I hooked up the new cable and both Windows and OSX recognized it with no issues (custom built machine with swappable hard drives in case you're scratching your head). The burning software it came with was useless to me since I already had burning software but the burner itself is solid.

Excellent

Hasta ahora ningún problema. Lo usé para instalar todos los drivers cuando terminé mi setup gamer y funcionó de maravilla.