Samsung 6X Slim Blu-ray Writer USB External Drive, SE-506BB/TSWD (White)

I have bought 2 and will as the need arises buy more. The trend to lighter ultraportable computers has meant that optical drives are not included. My daughter uses one for watching BluRay in her dorm and storing huge quantities of data from her course work and backs up her photos etc. Works with Window 8 or Mac has enough features that should meet the needs of most people. It is a very attractive design has some interesting software and is very portable. I highly recommend this. Great features and price.

Using it solely for loading software onto a laptop and for creating repair and recovery disks. Single connection cable for power and data works fine. Hooked it up straight out of the box and had no problem. Light weight. What more is there to say? It is a commodity and should work for my basic tasks.

I was a little leary about ordering this because I was used to the earlier version (SE-506AB/TSWD) which is no longer available so I wasn't sure how this Blu-ray Writer would react. I was very happy that it performed exactly as advertised.

Interesting product I use it with my HP Stream 8 tablet and Anker 7 port USB hub, adds a lot of functionality to the tablet. I installed it without a hitch, then proceeded to load up the bundled software (Free) Cyberlink Power DVD 10 and a slew of cyberlink softwrare on Windows 8.1 and it all went south after that. Bad drivers, crappy bloatware, throw away the disc unless you are running XP or maybe Vista. I proceeded to uninstall all the software including any personal settings and Win 8.1 recognized the Blu-ray Writer again. The reason I really like the product and gave it four stars, is that once you trash the crappy software, you are left with solid Hardware that works well everything else right out of the box, iTunes, VLC, ImgBurn and most every opensource alternative to the Power DVD 15's, Nero's of this world.

Much better than the external drive from Apple. This works on a USB hub. It plays and records anything I want to. The software available is still rudimentary. However, I keep being amazed by what I can do.

It works...thats about all I can say. Its great for watching and ripping Blue Rays, but when it comes to ripping Cds or DVDs it is slow as all get out!!!

I have tried using the provided PowerDVD 10 software but get an error when I try to play a movie. I have also tried using VLC, but with no success even. I am on the verge of sending this back. I've contacted TSST customer support to see if they will provide software for me to use my drive. Very frustrated as I also bought a pack of Blu Ray disks to burn old files to, but if I can not watch movies on the drive, I might as well return it meaning I will have wasted the disks. Hopefully I can get some software to play movies on soon or else I will be sending this back.

Not what I expected have some trouble with it at times this works better with a PC then a mac computer