• Reviews around drive (3.07 of 5)

    SAMSUNG TSST Ultra-Slim Optical 8X DVD Rewriter Drives SE-218GN/RSBD, M-Disc support, MAC OS X compatible

    • That one worked for 6 years (unlike the super drive that bonked out in less than a year)
    • : Wsky USB 3.0 External CD DVD Drive, CD/DVD-RW Drive, CD-RW Rewriter Burner Super Drive For High Speed Data Transfer Laptop Notebook PC Desktop
    • Pretty good quality optical drive for those rare times you need to use a CD
    • This drive is capable of: DVD Multi/M-DISC, DVD-RW, DVD-RDL, CD-R, and CD-RW
    • great drive, have three
    • great slim external optical drive. pick up a retractible usb cable like this
    • No matter what you may have read on the Web or in other Amazon reviews, the Samsung Electronics Ultra-Slim Optical Drive WILL NOT WORK with your Samsung phone or tablet as an OTG device
    • Very nice external CD drive
    • I purchased this drive to work with my 2015 Mac Pro.
    • The drive stalled a couple of times while I was encoding a CD into iTunes
    • It almost never works, either the drive won't read a CD/DVD or starts to read a it and then errors out
    • Great slim external drive that works perfectly with my Windows 10 laptop
    • Samsung will not handle the warranty and send you to tsstodd.com for support, however I called their number and they no longer support these drives
    • I highly recommend this drive!
    • Hardly used this drive and it still failed within 9 months.
    • Even when using a powered USB hub based on the recommendations from other users, the drive would spool up, work for a few seconds then completely stop
    • Much nicer than my internal super drive ever was and I'm on a USB 2.0 system.
    • Terrible drive.
    • When I inserted DVD media into the drive and followed the recommended procedure, the drive was UNSUCCESSFUL in reading the media each time
    • Very nice little optical drive
    • An excellent 2nd or replacement drive for a PC or laptop
    • almost negligibleThe drive is good , I tried it only 3 times .It maybe a bit slow , I need to try it more , but I trust Samsung
    • + disks (CD) on short notice and also had to provide a SLIM drive to someone whose primary unit lacked an internal optical drive
    • works sometimes - most of the time wont write discs or will get nearly to the end and corrupt.i wouldn't say its a terrible drive
    • Works perfectly for ripping DVDs to my Mac hard drive.
    • The drive made my Surface more useful.
    • Also, this drive is very loud.
    • Excellent drive
    • Samsung does not yet support this drive for use with the Android platform
    • Great drive
    • In general, this drive just felt cheap and i assume it wouldn't last very long
    • This drive works fine and didnt require any setup with window 7
    • This is a really crappy drive
    • So after trial and error, we figured out that the actual drive its self is bad
    • Cheaper than Apple's drive (which won't work on all Mac hardware!)
    • But it's a really nice drive - nicely finished, half the thickness of most USB drives, quiet, and well-made.
    • For an inexpensive little CD drive, I am quite satisfied with this product
    • This drive Aluminum External USB DVD+RW,-RW Super Drive for Apple--MacBook Air, Pro, iMac
    • Great Drive
    • I purchased this drive to work with a Macbook pro with retina display
    • A great drive and good service
    • durability.--------------------CONCLUSIONOverall, this isn't a bad drive at all
    • I was eventually able to install my software, but had so many read errors that I first had to copy the installation disks to my hard drive before I could run them.
    • The drive works out of the box without the software
    • Slim and fast drive - well made - will look good on your desk - has nice metalic finish - Plug and play that's all you need - plays all regions - of course you have to use the right
    • Fairly noisy drive.
    • The Samsung DVD optical drive is slim, works well and easily fits into my briefcase and matches my Samsung series x900 ultralight laptop
    • The drive looks nice but has been intermittant
    • This is an AMAZINGLY FAST DVD drive!!
    • Easy to use, hooked right up to my iMac that had a bad drive on it.
    • Great drive, right up until it completely stopped working after two years of very seldom use
    • Drive works fine - have had for 3 months now.
    • The CD was read fine by the apple brand usb 2 super drive
    • I understand thaf the drive is cheap but make sure you do not drop it off a pc tower, i dropped it and now it is not working like it did at first
    • then you may access mediaUnfortunately, this method of utilizing the Samsung Ultra-Slim drive was inconsistent at best, and unsuccessful at worst
    • Cheap and disposable drive from Samsung
    • So happy with this external hard drive and l needed it too
    • drive is pretty loud
    • Works as advertised - very nice optical drive at a great price.
    • Great little drive; Drivers load quickly.
    • So far this drive has worked fine
    • Great optical drive