External DVDRW drives for iMac

[Isumbras]

Can anyone reccomend a good external DVDRW drive (USB) for the current Macs.

I bought four Samsung ones for myself and a client and three of them have developed faults. Samsung UK have been very uncooperative so looking for another make and model.

I think the Apple one is overpriced and two internal drives in iMacs I have have both stopped reading DVD and CD disks.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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[Mikael H]

Can anyone reccomend a good external DVDRW drive (USB) for the current Macs.

I bought four Samsung ones for myself and a client and three of them have developed faults. Samsung UK have been very uncooperative so looking for another make and model.

I think the Apple one is overpriced and two internal drives in iMacs I have have both stopped reading DVD and CD disks.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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Sounds like bad luck to me. Return them on warranty and ask to get new ones from a different production batch.

 

[theSeb]

I use an LG external br/dvd and it has been flawless since I got it in 2011. I've used it to rip and digitise my entire collection of music, movies and series, which was a lot of disks. To be fair I have only used it twice to actually burn a dvd.

 

[nebo1ss]

I bought the ASUS bluray USB drive a couple of years ago and it has proven very reliable. I could not find the exact model number but it looked like the model shown below but was a lot more expensive.

http://transparent-uk.com/asus-sdrw...&istBid=tzxr&gclid=CNLn8qG_rsICFQQIwwod73cAXw

 

[hologram]

I think LaCie make the best externals.

I've been using them for many years (my last couple of Macs had internal SuperDrives, but I never used them, just the LaCies), and never had a failure. I even dropped a 10lb bronze sculpture on one and dented the top so deeply I thought I'd ruined it, but it continued to work perfectly until i replaced it with a faster one.

I can't remember the warranty I got, but I think it was 2-3 years instead of the usual 1.