LG 12X Blu-Ray Disc Drive M-DISC Support Model UH12NS40 - OEM

Pros: -Burns DVDs including permanent M-Disc

Cons: none really - other than having to DL a free BR player and possible lack of Win10 support

Overall Review: NOTE : *DL the Free leawo blu-ray player [google it] if your running any Windows OS except 10 ( didn't test) while LG should include a basic player/an drivers- but this is an OEM/barebones edition and priced as such and an excellent value considering its a DVD burner and not just a player and if your system doesn't have a BR player installed"* Purchased this secondarily for a HTPC an Acer running an Atom Processor (low power 10W) with 2 or 4 GB of ram don't recall, it was a Newegg shellshocker deal that cost about a Benjamin, which has been great as well. I primarily bought this for its ability to write M-disc for business archive records (permanent backups to CD (BluRayDisc that are supposed to have 100+ yr life). That and for the occasional BluRay rental and to play the few DVDs I own (Pretty much just box sets of Peter Jackson's - J. R. R. Tolkien films and RDM re-imaging of BSG on BluRay -otherwise we pretty much stream most shows/movies and so few are worth owning on DVD anymore. So this will spend most of its life for archiving business and personal records to M-Disc and the occasional rescreening of the DVD's. I will to say that I chose to go this route over a dedicated stand-alone BluRay player I bought 2-3 (and returned) even one with the 4K converter - it had far too many bells and whistles to be practical (hate most of the TV's& dvd players with SmartTech - because they are slow, stupid and are rarely updated- Roku TV are the exception - Simple -straight forward, responsive (quick) and work without bloat). So that said this handles pretty much all we need. Since my HTPC is low power and fanless other PS and almost silent, as LG's Silent Play technology claims -other initial loading /spin up you can't hear it running. I share this because- intially I was concerned with the negative reviews I read, before purchase - but I've learned that much of the time that tends to be end-user issues - unless I see an issue pop-up repeatedly in a review- it doesnt stop me from purchasing.

Pros: Drive works great. Much quieter than my old optical drive. It was plug n play as well.

Cons: Blue-ray playback depends on your installed media software and age of the media you're trying to play. Unless you have the absolute newest media software you won't be playing the newest BD releases. This really wasn't a huge deal for me but after reading some of the reviews of this drive I felt a need to point that out. DON'T BLAME THE DRIVE FOR NOT PLAYING SOME OR MOST OF THE BLUERAY DISKS OUT THERE! BLAME YOUR SOFTWARE!!

Pros: Windows 10 does not supply software to play blu ray/dvd discs. THIS IS NOT A FAULT OF THIS DRIVE! It's listed as OEM - which means , if you can read, it is just the bare drive - doesn't come with software. There are plenty of free options out there. PROS: this thing reads reads/rips much faster than my older LG drive, it's about 30MB per second. Works well. No rip guard or anything.

Cons: none

Overall Review: It bugs me when people do not read the obvious and give products a poor rating because they do not know what they are doing.

Pros: -Blu-ray read speeds on par with today's Blu-ray players -Fits in traditional 5.25" bays -Sata connection -Quiet -DVD writter -Reads 3D Blu-Rays

Cons: -Not a Blu-ray burner -Slightly longer than other disk drives but still should fit. -Only SATA connections

Overall Review: -Great for Blu-ray playback if you can't afford a Blu-ray player.

Pros: Not bad on noise level when playing movies. Works well.

Cons: Not getting the software with this makes it hard to justify cost. 10 more and get one with a blu-ray/dvd suite

Pros: This is the quietest optical drive I've ever owned. It worked natively in Win7, works in XP after downloading and installing UDF 2.5 drivers. It works on it's side too. I've watched about twenty hours of blu ray so far with no problems.

Cons: I couldn't find this exact model on the LG site for future firmware updates. The LED is obnoxiously bright. I have it covered up.

Pros: Does the job, good little unit. I use CyberLink PowerDVD software since drive doesn't come with any software, but price to value is a good deal.

Cons: None so far

Pros: plug and play easy to install no additional software was required to read BR disks

Cons: no additional software read speeds are basic and not good for volume BR disk copy

Overall Review: Would purchase again, if I had the choice. Would recommend for the passive BR disk copier