Verbatim 43890 External Slimline Mobile USB 3.2 Blu-ray Writer

Perhaps a little more cost than others lesser known brands available, however, build quality is excellent. Functions very well and comes with blank Blu-ray Disc, quiet too.

Good little blu-ray drive,does what it says on the tin and more ;),a little noisy at full read speeds especially with 4k discs otherwise its highly recommended.

Honestly I would give this four and a half stars which would be more accurate. The player is genuinely very good and does what it says it does, but it does have some minor flaws: First of all, it’s very flimsy feeling, it looks great- but even with a case purchased for it I’m nervous about taking it around. the top of it the case is slightly warped which concerns me but does not impede functionality of the device, and that might just be my unit anyway. The Y cable is quite annoying as it takes up 2 USB slots but if you have a USB splitter it’s not too bad. Secondly, this device is very very loud, do not expect it to be quiet when writing even at low speeds, I did expect this though so it wasn’t really a factor when I was buying it. Maybe don’t use it in any libraries. It reads all my Blurays very very well and lets me make my own with relative ease. Be warned though you do need some technical knowledge and external software to get most new commercial Blurays to play- this is not the fault of the player. Box was really well packed and came with a helpful user guide disc.

I had a terrible experience with this blu-ray drive and this is the first bad review that I have written. On first impressions the drive is a really nice and neat design, BUT the problems emidiatly flew thick and fast :( to start with the setup guide recomends just a single usb 3 port for data/power, the drive was unstable this method and could barely read the software CD it came with and through either straight into an available usb 3.0 blue port or through my 2amp powered usb 3.0 hub still not usable. So I tried the second method by plugging in the dual usb (power usb followed by data and to my horror the same result, clearly the drive couldn't get enough power......CRAZY as my old 2013 Samung BD burner runs off a SINGLE usb 2.0 port! this thing with 2usb 3.0 ports was getting nearly 4x the input power of the old Samsung and still it would barely load any discs. So Then I thought OK I'll try the 3amp power supply and bingo! it worked like a charm.... or so I though.... boy was I wrong. So the main thing I wanted to use this drive for was blu-ray conversion to MP4 so I could take my personal collection of Film/TV with me on my tablet ect and at first the drive seemed to be working fine and I evenn managed to convert a couple of 2hr plus films but THEN my nearly brand new Ryzen 5 Laptop crashed and my brand new 4TB External HDD started making horrid clicking noises!! natrually I paniced as my new computer which had cost me a LOT of my money seemed like it could have died on me, so I restarted my machine and all was well again...until a few mins later the same thing AAAAAAHHH :( and repeat several times, then I disconnected the Verbatim Blu-ray and hmmm the problem seems completely fixed, I reconnected my OLD slower Samsung Blu-ray and ripped several more films which took several hours without a hitch....hmm that's wierd I thought. Now I decided to carry out an experinment with this new drive, so with the mains adaptor I connected it to a spare usb hub with a mouse in it and to my surprise the hub and mouse connected to hub which was not connected to my pc turned on and the mouse flashed on and off surging with power leaking from the blu-ray drive back into the ports of the hub!! I am so glad I noticed this early enough so as not to perminantly damage my expensive new ASUS gaming laptop and 4TB WD Passport drive, I was lucky that my equipment is still OK and I am converting more films on older slower drive as we speak. So in conclusion I am truly sorry to have to post a bad review about this product but this fault is dangerous to your PC and must be known so it might not happen to anyone else. Update: My New 4TB HDD Has just died click,click,click..... Glad I managed to back it up before it died.

This is an excellent product for writing Blu-Ray disks up to 100GB. I don't think it's actually made by Verbatim - it seems to identify itself as a Pioneer drive, but regardless is solidly made and performs really well. I haven't had any issues using it with Windows 10 and the included software, I haven't been able to get this to work with Windows Server 2012 R2 which is a shame as I had been hoping to use it for backup purposes for this reason. Yes writing 100GB disks does take some time and the disks are quite expensive (particularly the 100GB disks) but to write backups to non-volatile media that is immune from infection and ransomware this really takes some beating. I'm using mine to archive photos and everything I've read says the media should be good for at least 25 years so worthwhile data insurance.

UPDATE I noticed a review stating that this was locked to US; mine plays UK Blu Ray disks and gives the usual five chances to change regions for DVD's. If yours is locked to US you could have received a second-hand one locked by the previous user, which you should be able to return to Amazon for a replacement. ---------- I use this slim-line Bluray writer mainly for ripping CD's to my computer for transfer to my phone. The internal CD writer on my computer is soooo slow (about 5x), but this external drive transfers at about 18x speed - very quick and effective. A handy included sticky pad stops it from sliding round the desk. It's also instant plug and play, using one USB socket for power and one for the data. It looks attractive too. Very highly recommended..

Feels flimsy but does the job of rewriting CDs. I haven’t used it with a dvd. I bought it for the Blu-ray. That’s where the trouble started. I am not very techie clever, but I thought I could download and use a bit of software to provide my Mac with a Blu-ray facility. I’ve tried a few times unsuccessfully. Why don’t the suppliers of this Blu-ray machine supply a suitable piece of software?

Bon lecteur , lis les blu Ray ( avec power DVD pour ma par),cd et DVD . Plug and play ,fournis avec nero (logiciel de gravure ). Pour l'instant il fonctionne comme il faut ,peux être un poil bruyant .

WERKT ERG GOED EN SNEL. GEBRUIKT U HEM VEEL, REGELMATIG DE LASERS REINIGEN, HETZIJ MET ALCOHOL & WATTEN STAAFJE OF "KÖNIG CD LENS CLEANER", BUSJE MET VLOEISTOF WORDT MEEGELEVERD". AANRADER DEZE "VERBATIM externe Slimline USB 3.0 BluRay MDisc brander. Succes...greetz.

Perfekte Ware. Habe damit in kurzer Zeit 50 Bluerays mit je 50GB gebrannt, ohne einen einzigen Ausfall.

Jag hade en billig USB blue ray läsare men det var flera filmer om den vägrade läsa. Den här har klarat alla blue ray filmer hittills. Den enda anmärkning jag har är att den ibland har svårt att starta, men efter några försök har det alltid gått. Jag har inte plats för min tv nu så jag använder datorn till att titta på film. Jag måste dock påpeka att jag har INTE försökt bränna skivor med den.

Prima di acquistarlo, inizialmente avevo valutato masterizzatori esterni "slim" di altre marche come migliori per via del fatto che per questo masterizzatore non avevo trovato alcuna recensione. Ma dopo aver approfondito ed essermi informato adeguatamente sulle caratteristiche tecniche anche contattando direttamente le case produttrici, ho scoperto che questo masterizzatore blu-ray verbatim slimline è, a mio avviso, il migliore, in quanto, oltre al resto, è completamente compatibile con la tecnologia M-DISC. Nello specifico, non l'ho ancora provato in masterizzazione sugli M-DISC, ma posso asserire che è un ottimo prodotto dalle dimensioni minimali, eccellente per chi necessita di avere un masterizzatore universale sempre con sè o di spostarlo da un computer ad un altro in ufficio o in casa. L'ho testato su un laptop ed un ebook. Il primo è un Acer Extensa 5220 con windows vista e il secondo un Asus con windows 10. Sull'Acer il masterizzatore funziona perfettamente ma occorre collegarlo solo a sistema operativo già avviato, altrimenti il portatile non si avvia (si visualizza la scherma iniziale dell'Acer che rimane bloccata), probabilmente per via di una parziale incompatibilità con la bios, ma c'è da dire che tale modello (Acer 5220) è molto datato. Con l'ebook l'Asus (modello di 6 anni fa) invece tutto perfetto. Una nota importante sugli accessori compresi nella confezione del masterizzatore (dato che anche sul sito ufficiale non è chiaro cosa sia dato in dotazione): -Cavo USB ad "y", fondamentale per auto-alimentare il masterizzatore con 2 porte del tipo USB 2.0; -Alimentatore esterno nel caso si necessiti di una corrente di alimentazione che il pc non è in grado di fornire (ma col cavo USB ad "y" non è necessario, se si disporre di due porte USB 2.0); -CD comprendente Manule+Software di Archiviazione "Nero Burn & Archive"; -Blu-ray MISC SL da 25 GB. Consiglio questo prodotto sia perché trattasi di un masterizzatore universale che legge e scrive qualsiasi supporto (anche i blu-ray XL e in generale tutti i DVD e bluray con tecnologia M-DISC), sia perché ha in dotazione già tutti gli accessori per poter essere utilizzato con qualsiasi portatile o PC (funziona anche su MAC). Il software in dotazione (Nero Burn & Archive) è utilizzabile con DVD e CD. Il prodotto è distribuito da Verbatim ed è costruito dalla Mitsubushi, ottima azienda giapponese. Acquisto da anni supporti ottici e periferiche Verbatim e devo dire che sono sempre rimasto molto soddisfatto per qualità ed affidabilità, e quest'ultimo acquisto conferma la mia fiducia. Infine, il prezzo Amazon è conveniente, si risparmiano intorno a 40 Euro, e il prodotto è completamente nuovo, integro e sigillato con garanzia di 2 anni (con ricevuta fiscale). Chi acquista richiedendo fattura ha un 1 anno di garanzia. Ho acquistato contestualmente anche una custodia da viaggio Salcar che è risultata essere perfetta per tale masterizzatore. Ho ritenuto giusto lasciare questa esaustiva recensione per rendere merito a questo prodotto ed agevolare altri utenti nella loro scelta d'acquisto, che necessitino come me di un masterizzatore portatile universale e performante. Occorre infatti valutare con attenzione i masterizzatori esterni in quanto quasi sempre (per quanto ho potuto vedere sul web), sono solo parzialmente compatibili in scrittura con i Blu-ray M-DISC (ossia masterizzano solo i blu-ray a singolo strato), e inoltre non tutti i modelli supportano i blu-ray XL ad alta capacità.