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Very nice, comes with an 12 or 18" SATA cable of good quality, and an molex to SATA adapter if you are out of SATA's for removable storage. What noise you may here is a very pleasant spinning, like a small well balanced fan. Also comes well packaged and with Nero 7 and 8 essential (you'll only need 8). All and all it's ready to go, right out of the box.
End result, this is a great deal, especially if you don't know much about computer hardware. It's also very fast. Granted, this was coming from an 8 year old Sony IDE, but Sony still sells that exact same model I had. If you have SATA ports, it comes with everything you need. I haven't tried the light-scribe abilities yet, but I'd assume they work. This alone is worth $8 if you live near a computer store, around $20.00 if you don't and don't plan on ordering anything.
It has cut my game loading times by a third, and reading files off of disks to almost nothing. Combined with speedy shipping, this whole experience gets an A++ from me. The firmware on it is the most up to date, so no flashing/updating is needed there. The drive itself is very quite.
I don't have a blueray to test yet but I have no complaints about this Drive. Was an Easy install. I had to update the software before my HD Video would play(Serenity).
Anyway the DVD Drive showed up real fast and works fine. I am not getting the 5% "reward" anyway as I waited past the 30 day limit they have on this offer. Not bad, I guess they get better placing on Amazon listings with the higher rating.
This entire process was simple and satisfying. I wanted to install the unit and use it before I wrote a review. They honestly deserve the 5 stars.
That's right, Buy Direct wants a top rating and will pay ("reward" is the way they put it) you 5% of your order price for it. These were easy enough to find online once I realized I needed them. Good luck.
I don't have a problem with this policy, sort of a win-win for everybody. I did have to buy two SATA cables to install it in my box.
My Sony only had 4 SATA ports, but this new Asus motherboard has 10, so no problems. The drive has worked extremely well in both systems. Do remember this is a SATA interface. The drawer mechanism is better than the Sony's I have used, but not as solid as external stand alone burners (although I've never seen an internal drive that is that good).
Have used this drive in my desktop computer system for around 6 months with rock solid performance. Just check to be sure you have the ports and the power supply connector. If you are slim on SATA connectors on your motherboard, be very careful about this purchase. Typical single layer DVD burns are around 16x even on 8x certified media.
It fits in a 5 1/4 bay like any other optical drive. Have never used the Lightscribe function. This particular drive has been inside a Pentium 4 3GHz Sony Vaio and a home built Quad Core system. The drive is fairly quiet.
I've been using this for a couple of weeks now, and is grate. Good product. This DVD Player is just grate. And the price is awsome too.
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