Pros: Nothing!

Cons: Tried to burn my Flight Simulator install folder of about 50 GBs to a BD-RE XL 100 GB Sony disk. At about 8 GB in I was getting errors. Then the drive continually did not work at all. It would read music CDs, but can't write. I changed the SATA port to a different controller. Same story. I even bought a PCI-e SATA controller card and plugged the drive into that. Still no joy! I couldn't even update the firmware! Says checksum error! What's the point in firmware when you can't even update it?!

Other Thoughts: To make matters worse I have contacted R2B2 Buys for a RMA three times and NEVER got an E-mail from them. I'm now stuck with a $53 paper weight! I like how they are selling this drive for 60 some odd dollars now! I will NEVER buy from a third party again! Only from Newegg and I would suggest you do the same thing.

Pros: Windows 10 recognized it immediately. Works well with CyberLink PowerDVD 15 Ultra for playback, burning, and copying. Even better with WinX DVD Copy Pro [free] for copying DVDs.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Okay, folks, this is where you put the objective information...

I had a couple coasters out of about 50 DVD copies. Why was this? Not because of the drive itself, it's because the discs being copied had bad sectors. This was ultimately mitigated by using WinX, which fixes bad sectors (so awesome!). When playing a BluRay disc, make sure your PC has had a few minutes to boot up, get on with its background processes, and let your media program fully load. As immediate playback will stutter a bit (even with an AMD FX-8350 and 16GB of RAM). I have only played one BluRay disc so far, as it's the only one I own, and it played fantastically. Playback also depends on your media playback program, not the drive. Also, this is an OEM product, which means playback software is NOT provided, so don't knock off an egg because you weren't attentive enough to know that. Another fine LG ODD product.

Pros: Cheap?

Cons: Doesn't read discs too well...

Other Thoughts: I purchased this drive to archive my Blu-Ray and DVD library. This drive doesn't work through errors. My laptop drive and the DVD drive that came included with my HP Pro SFF reads discs without issue that this drive struggles with. I looked for a firmware update but the ones listed for this model don't pass checksum... Hopefully LG-Hitachi fixes the issues with new firmware.

Pros: Easy install

Cons: N/A

Pros: Cheap

Cons: This is my 3rd LG Bluray drive. I<ve had a BH10LS30 and a BH14NS40 before.
They all had the same faith: after some time they stopped recognizing bluray disc.

I used them to backup and digitze my bluray collection.

They all died the same way, after a certain time, bluray disc do not show up in the OS and the drive start to make weird clicking/skipping noise.

I bought this drive less than 2 months ago...

I guess I would recommend staying clear of LG bluray drives.

Pros: Why buy an expensive smart Blu-ray player when your computer is so much more powerful? Works great for playing movies, but I have yet to burn one. Even works good on an older Pentium D with 4GB ram (will be upgrading it to a Quad-Core CPU soon so they should play even better). No firmware update was needed on mine, just plug and play. EDIT: Since this review I bought some 25GB Verbatim Blu-ray discs, and they burn and play great! It's much slower than a regular DVD-R but that's expected.

Cons: Not a con of the player itself but a special program is required to play movies. Fortunately I had Nero 2014 and it can both burn and play movies. Unlike what one reviewer said you don't need an $80 program, as Nero and similar ones are around $40.

Other Thoughts: Would highly recommend if you want to watch HD movies without a TV or can hook your computer to your TV. But to really enjoy it you have to get a nice monitor and decent GPU, which I have. And as this is the older/slower model I wouldn't buy it at full price, but I got it on Black Friday for $35 so you can't beat that! Otherwise I would buy the newer one.

EDIT: I recently upgraded my older Dell computer to an Intel Q6700 with 6 GB of RAM, and the playback is much smoother as well as very little CPU power used! All I need now is an even better video card!

Pros: Awesome!

Cons: N/A

Other Thoughts: Works great!

Pros: Everything about it is a pro. Has burned 8 Blu-ray discs, 30 Dvds, and 10 CD-Rs with zero issues. Hopefully more to come.

Cons: No software included.

Other Thoughts: Updated firmware recently. I purchased Cyber-link Power Director 13 (current at the time of purchase) to be able to burn blu-ray discs. I would highly recommend this drive.

Pros: - Works well

Cons: - No included software

Other Thoughts: This drive works well as a blu-ray reader and writer but you're better off buying a non-OEM player that comes with software to play your movies. This player will not be able to play blu-rays without first purchasing a third party software.

Pros: None.

Cons: Will not play blu-rays with Nero Platinum 2015 or Cyberlink PowerDVD 15. Updated every possible driver/bios. Will not update firmware. "CheckSum is mismatched. Drive will go to BOOT mode Please retry again." Going to be returning this drive unless LG comes up with a quick fix.