Hitachi-LG GP60 External DVD Drive, Slim Portable DVD Burner/Writer/Player for Laptop, Windows and Mac OS Compatible, USB 2.0, 8x Read/Write Speed - Silver

Excellent. Bought to rip through my collection of commercial DVDs as I'm bringing everything together on a home media centre. My M1 iMac (2022) recognised the device straight away - truly "plug and play", no drivers or other installations needed - and it surprised me by opening the first DVD with a DVD Player app that I didn't even know I had! Make MKV also recognised the drive - no problem. It's a time-consuming process - but only because of the technology limitations of working with a physical disc. Make MKV's files then get transcoded through Handbrake into much smaller H265 MP4 files. Yes, the tiny drive feels rather fragile, but if you support the slide-out tray with one hand underneath it each time you handle a disc, I'm hoping it will be OK. For the price (I paid around £25) it's amazing. Well pleased.

Works straight out of the box. Pre-loaded with various PDFs and also Cyberlink Media Suite; however, no instructions as to how to install the software even if I wanted it which I don't. Could not quite read a 2004 DVD burned by a mate. Plays music CDs OK.

Very light weight. Tested with Macbook M4 Air on OS 26.3 and it was plug and play with both DVDs and CDs and an adapter on each end of the Anker USB-A to Micro cable I already had as I want to use this as part of my travel kit. An update to USB-C would be welcome modernisation. So entirely meets expectations, except that 'silver' is more like ... grey stripes on black, for which -1*. This will not match your Mac. Full marks for form factor and performance as tested.

Arrived safely, plug and play, no problem at all!

Very quick, smooth, quiet and responds immediately to the computer.

Bought this to burn a Video file for a project to play a DVD on an old system. Drive worked brilliantly out the box when plugged into Windows 11 laptop. Wrote to both DVD R and DVD RW with no issues whatsoever. Plays Audio CD and DVD quietly and I must say I am impressed by the quality of the price. I know there are cheaper models that have additional port functionality, but for my purpose I wanted to buy once and get quality, which this neat compact drive delivers each time.

Great drive perhaps it seems not as quick as the item it replaced (LG) but it does the job and does it well happy with it no worries it looks quite smart also.

I am using this to read a load of old CD/ROMs, probably going back about 15 years. I had been using a drive out of an old MacBook Pro 2010, but bought this to get the job done faster. Most of the time it works, but I find that on about one CD out of fifty, it will fail to read the disk directory. Swapping back to the old Apple drive works every time on these "bad" CDs, though I cannot say whether there would be any that do not work on the Apple drive and do work on this drive. This is for CD/ROMs rather than DVDs: DVDs cram data in more tightly. For this reason I can't really recommend this drive.

Excellent lecteur DVD , lit à peu près tout le DVD est silencieux. Je le conseille , Car auparavant j'avais acheté un autre lecteur DVD sur Amazon et celui là Refusait de lire la plupart des DVD , C'était une catastrophe. Mieux vaut acheter celui là qui coûte 4 à 5€ de plus mais est parfait.

Dopo vari acquisti di prodotti similari, alcuni funzionanti altri meno, ho deciso di spendere qualche euro in più.....credetemi,ne vale davvero la pena. Avevo gia un vecchio modello della LG, il GP08 del 2010, peraltro ancora egregiamente funzionante ma col "difetto" di aver bisogno dell'utilizzo di 2 usb per alimentarlo, e questo invece molto più leggero e versatile e con tanto di CD con software per masterizzazione. Masterizza anche DVD, al contrario di altri che operano solo su CD. Quindi consiglio vivamente di fare il "sacrificio" di una spesa lievemente superiore, che vi ripagherà senza rimpianti. Oltretutto LG è sinonimo di buona qualità e funzionalità a prezzi accessibilissimi.

Working with windows 11

Endlich mal ein CD-Laufwerk, das tut, was es soll. Bin zufrieden. Kostete zwar mehr, aber die anderen haben entweder nicht funktioniert oder gingen nach kurzer Zeit kaputt.

Szybko i sprawnie. Działa perfekcyjnie.