Pioneer BDR-XD07B - 6x Slim Portable USB 3.0 BD/DVD/CD Burner - Supports BDXL & M-Disc Format - USB Bus Powered, Cyberlink Software Included

Its worthy...Good Product !!!

First off, its a little pricey compared to a few others. However, it just works. In this case, you get what you pay for. Its a Pioneer and works like it knows it is. I ran this all day ripping old backup -R/-RW disks to back them up. Ireally had this running for most of about 100 hours and it never once failed me or gave any problems. Truly plug and play. It was even able to read DVDs that I couldnt read in my older desktop DVD-R/RW Panasonic drive. It plays BD fast and balances itself fairly well. Not too much vibration unless youve got bad disks. Even then, the noise was minimal. It even came with a third-party travel case that has held up pretty well to a few rough trips. Definitely worth it.

It’s a burner! Works like a burner, sounds like a burner…

Alright blue-ray but the software is junk

Nice BluRay player, however the instruction manual leaves a LOT to be desired. Be prepared to spend some time with the manual.

My initial impression of this drive is *not* encouraging (for writing data to disks)!! Im using Verbatim BD-R disks, and have used three different programs now to handle disk writes; CyberLink (which comes with the drive), Ashampoo Burning Studio (free), and BurnAware free. I have had 3 dead disks out of 6 tries. My system is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I tried looking for a firmware update for the drive, but cannot find one on the company site. I tried calling tech support, but they hung up on me without ever reaching a human; I have an email request in now. I also considered using a separate power supply, though the Pioneer docs insist that is not required. I *do* hope I can resolve this before I receive the more-expensive M-disc disks that Ive ordered; throwing out half of those will *not* be acceptable!!

I know I was putting a heavy production load on it, but all it lasted was for 28 days. At least it was within the Amazon Prime guarantee period, so the return was quick and easy. Also, seems that the folks at Amazon have programmed an auto-refund if you buy an Asurion extended warranty at the same time, because I got that refunded before I could even ask for it! (High marks to Amazon for making that happen. That wasnt the case even 2 months ago, so thumbs up!) While it worked, it was quick and reliable.

The drive itself behaves as expected for a Blu-ray player, which is mostly what I picked it up for. Pioneer still makes a fantastic product, and it supports way more formats than I expected. Others complained about the open button placement, Im not one of them. Hard case is a nice touch with room for drive, cable (which is only 1 foot btw), and multiple discs, or other stuff you want to stuff into it. Thats the good news. The bad is the price I paid for the hassle I got installing Cyberlink Media Suite. Partly my fault for losing my password to the last two iterations of Cyberlink login. Good luck recovering the password, the email has yet to grace my inbox anywhere. Now, it took me a couple hours to figure out I needed another email since they wont help. The link works like this. You enter the address manually, it takes you to the EULA agreement page where youd expect to just Agree and Download. Wrong...Sends you to the Cyberlink Login page. This might have gone differently if I had just registered a new email, entered the code, and downloaded the installer. You have to register, takes you to Cyberlinks bloated page with no way to enter a code. Sign out and close the browser. Relaunch, enter the code address again and it will go to the EULA, webpage login with Step 1, then code step 2, then download step three. It still took 30 minutes to get 1.6gb on a 300mb connection, so on Cyberlinks slow ftp. And the copy is Media Suite 10, which is a bit dated (if Id read the description better I would have noted that). Still worked with Windows 10 despite it complaining about some features not working. The bad thing about dated software is you never know when Microsoft will obsolete it completely. Buyer beware, just get a player and the software separate. Youll be much better off.

The product came with a product key and link to software to be able to write data. The link brings you to a site with a dozen products with none matching the name given in the documentation. Pretty much useless. I use the drive to read which works fine but now have no way to write.

Using this drive to convert my library of cds, DVD-A, music Blu-Ray, and SACDs to digital files. So far it works flawlessly!