Product Description

With its slim and lightweight design, Samsung'sSlim Glossy SE-S084C/RSBN external DVD rewriter certainlylives up to its name! The SE S084C is compatiblewith 8 cm and 12 cm discs, and has a write speed of 8x for DVD+RW, 6x fordual-layer discs and 24x for CD-R(W). Plus, with Plug & Play technology, youcan simply hook up the USB cable and start using it straight away. The SE-S084-C includes WriteMaster technology to enhance yourrecordings for reliable, high-quality results. This Samsung rewriter will alsoupdate itself automatically via the Internet. The SE-S084C/RSBN portable DVD rewriter is also RoHS compliantfor improved environmental safety.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1908 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: SE-S084C/RSBN
• Released on: 2009-10-14
• Dimensions: .75" h x 5.60" w x 6.20" l, .93 pounds

Features

• With its slim and lightweight design, Samsung'sSlim Glossy SE-S084C/RSBN external DVD rewriter certainlylives up to its name! The SE S084C is compatiblewith 8 cm and 12 cm discs, and has a write speed of 8x for DVD+RW, 6x fordual-layer discs and 24x for CD-R(W). Plus, with Plug & Play technology, youcan simply hook up the USB cable and start using it straight away. The SE-S084-C includes WriteMaster technology to enhance yourrecordings for reliable, high-quality results. This Samsung rewriter
• will alsoupdate itself automatically via the Internet. The SE-S084C/RSBN portable DVD rewriter is also RoHS compliantfor improved environmental safety.
• SAMSUNG SE-S084C Slim Glossy 8x External DVD±RW Rewriter - black DVD writer Storage
• DVD writer

Customer Reviews

Works, but not heavily tested yet.
It's small, it's shiny and it goes with my netbook. I did notice that it had to be kept flat - moving sideways it resulted in the dvd inside becoming un-clipped, and making a disturbing noise in the case. It didn't scratch though, and this has only happened once (I don't make a habit of waving it around).

However- i've only used this a few times, so it hasn't had a hard trial.

Avoid if you have a MacBook
I bought this after buying an LG drive which would not work as it was not compatible.

I have got a MacBook Pro (2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo) with two usb ports.

This has got Mac compatible plastered all over it but still it does not work. Occasionally it will work and then tell me it is drawing too much power and shut down. The drive comes with a USB cable with two usb connectors at one end (I presume because it requires a bit of power) and a mini usb at the other to plug into the DVD drive. The problem is that the supplied USB lead is too short to be able to plug in both USB ends on a Mac (as they are either side of the keyboard), so you need a USB extension cable to connect both (which I have).

So I plugged both ends in, the other to the DVD drive and thought simple! The brand new "Office for Mac" disk just went round and round and would not do anything. So i tried again, re-insert disk and got the same result. I like to think I'm not completely incompetent, although I suspected I was doing something wrong. So I tried plugging the USB leads via every imaginable variation with three different USB extension leads. Always the same result. I then tried plugging both of the USB ends into a USB hub, but again it would not work. I tried various disks, including Software and DVDs in various connection combinations and nothing would work.

I then looked on the box and re-read the specs: Mac OSX 10.4.6 - I'm running 10.5.8 (and if this would allow me would load 10.6!)
The one thing it does say is that "normal operation is not guaranteed when using a usb hub or unspecified cables". This renders it useless for a MacBook Pro with only one USB connection per side and a supplied cable that cannot reach both.

Avoid and perhaps try to find one with it's own power source?

Samsung optical drive
I was happy with my product and all looks to be in good working order.Being that i have a net book with no internal drive, i needed to get an external one.I would recommend this product to anyone in the same position.It looks gd, it's lightwieght and has a gd perforformance level.:)