Buffalo Desktop Blu-Ray BRXL-16U3

The CD/BLUE RAY reader is well made and works perfectly. The seller has been very kind and solved quickly all my desires. I strongly suggest him. Shipping in Italy has been perfect and within the planned times.

Works excellent with MakeMKV. I have been using it to rip my Blu-Rays to my Plex library. This thing tears through Blu-Rays, around 8x speed at most. A movie can be finished in under 20 minutes. The drive I got came with the HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH16NS58. I was able to flash the firmware easily using SDFtool -- WH16NS60_1.02_MK.bin was what I flashed on it, if you're curious -- so I've gained ability to rip my UHD discs as well to the library. Massive upgrade from the generic BD-RE drive I got with mystery parts inside. Only downside is that I'll probably need to upgrade my storage soon!

This drive hits these right notes: * rest the disc in a tray and close - no snapping the disc onto/prying it off of a hub * Quiet. Almost no vibration * Works fine with Linux and Mac (on Mac I use the free MakeMKV beta to turn blu-rays into mkvs for desktop & iPad watching) * USB 3 makes the buffer pre-fills faster when burning. Read speed never saturates a USB 2 bus so backward compatibility is fine * Actual read speeds north of 30 megabytes/sec on blu-ray and the 12x on DVD is real * BDXL: up to 128GB capacity But most importantly: * Works fine with Netflix blu-ray rentals without peeling off the hub label Most slim PC blu-ray drives don't have enough clearance and have read problems on many discs or outright fail. I didn't check out the included Windows software. The suite looks impressive, but look to reviewers who normally use Windows for more. The only cons so far: * At $160, price is currently double what I'd like * DC power plug seems pretty flimsy: be very careful about the back of the unit not pressing up against anything and flexing the plug * Large unit, will chew up a bit of desk space (check the specs)

Beware, I bought one of these two years ago and loved it. But sadly after extended use it no longer burns but still plays and rips. I bought a replacement and was sent a Pioneer bdr-209m dressed in Buffalo's clothing. Buffalo tech support told me it was a driver problem with my computer. My computer seems to have to problem correctly identifying my other Buffalo, or my LG, or my Mitsubishi or even my Memorex. Still I did as they suggested and it made no difference. I tried it on my father's PC and it shows it as a Pioneer, took it to a friends and it still shows as a Pioneer on his PC. Three strikes and you're out Buffalo, returning it for an Amazon credit and will buy a different drive. This would have been my third Buffalo drive, have always liked their quality. Maybe someday they'll again sell their own drives and I'll try them out again. In the photo posted, the top one is the older one and you can see they're a little different. The bottom one is the new one and if you compare it with one of the Pioneer bdr-209m drives they sell here on Amazon you'll see they are identical except for the Pioneer logo. Update 2/7/17 I bought another Buffalo drive (40099860201915) from a different vendor. Same damn thing, a Pioneer BDR-209M on two different updated systems. It rips disc at at a third of the speed and is a much noisier unit, it just looks cheaper and is. You can buy the pioneer for just over $70 and a nice optical drive external enclosure for around $50 here at Amazon and have the same thing for less. Apparently Buffalo has found a way to save money and increase profits at the expense of their customers. I'll be contacting Amazon's purchasing dept. as they are also being ripper off and maybe even the BBB. Update 4/6/17 Filed complaint with BBB. In Buffalo's reply they did admit to using a Pioneer drive now so it was never a driver problem like their tech "support" claim three different times. They also claim it has the same specs as the older unit. Not true, I still have a working older unit and it's not a noisy and it reads and rips disc much faster, They also claimed this was some other problem related to software or computer. Couldn't believe them the first time and this claim also just doesn't hold water. The truth is this drive is just a cheep knock-off of the original, it even looks cheep, nothing like on the box. Do yourself a favor and go with the LG 14X BE14NU40 or the ASUS 12X (BW-12D1S-U Lite), I have both of those models as well and they're better blu ray drives. Not to mention you're getting what you pay for, not a cheep knock-off.

I bought this drive to use with my laptop since disc drives aren't standard on laptops anymore. It's easy to install and plays Bluray excellently. The write function is great too. The only issues I have with this drive is: 1, Playing and writing DVDs is a 50/50 gamble. Some times it works, sometimes it doesn't. All the DVDs I've tried are the correct region with no scratches or defects. Many of them are brand new and still won't play. It occasionally happens with Bluray as well. 2, Sometimes the drive won't spin up and I have to disconnect the drive from my laptop and the power source, then restart my laptop and re-set up the drive to get it working again. This happens roughly every other day. There's no power issues since the drive is plugged directly into the wall and the USB ports on my laptop are in great shape since the laptop is new, so power and connection aren't the problem. All I can think of is there may be an issue with the DVD drive sensor. Still, I don't regret the purchase even if its sometimes troublesome to use. Luckily, I'm a very patient person and use it primarily for media. If I had to use it for work, it'd be a different story.

Happy with purchase. So far, very reliable.

I have bought several of these as archival storage using windows and adding files as they need to be backed up just like I would be moving to another folder. Speed of transfer is far better than most other bluray disk burners. I rarely have any coasters being made using this device which is an improvement over other options. I have bought several others to keep on hand just in case or if I upgrade other computers. I do not use these to rip blurays.

I was a little skeptical about seeing much improvement, I have a brand new HP PC that is fast as greased lightening and so I pretty much expected everything in it to be fast but that was clearly not the case for the Blu-Ray R/W unit that is internal SATA bus attached and should be far faster than anything USB 3 attached but not so. Pro's: - Very Fast, hitting reads at 12x on DVD and 6.7x on BR, and everything else is even faster - True plug n' Play for Win7 (I have not tried Win10 or Mac) - Lay-Flat form factor - Motorized Tray, no fumbling with a pressure hub on a flimsy tray - Heavy with good rubber pads, does not slide around even on a slick surface - For Win7 all needed drivers are already part of the OS, no need to load their bloatware Con's: - Crippled software that is 6 major revisions behind and lots of nag screens to upgrade (Cyberlink's fault) - Count on buying the upgrade if you do not already own a BR authoring package (Cyberlink is a very good package, Roxio also if you prefer) The con's were not an issue for me, I already have the latest CyberLink PowerDirector & PowerDVD, Roxio Creator and other packages to deal with the discs. Here is a BR and DVD comparison to the build in BR unit in my PC (All tests were done on USB 3, USB 2 will be a lot slower) - Rip a 30GB HD home movie from Blu-Ray -- 16 Minutes on Buffalo / 34 Minutes on HP Player -- (30.2 M/s @6.7x Read) - Rip a 4GB HD home movie from DVD -- 4.5 Minutes on Buffalo / 22 Minutes on HP Player -- (16.1 M/s @ 12.2x) I have not found any tools this drive does not work well with including, MakeMKV, CyberLink PowerDirector, Replay Convert, VideoReDo+, VLC and of course WMC and WMP. It would be hard to be happier with the performance, the looks, size, and weight, for a desktop situation, this would not make a good portable drive it is took big and heavy compared to ones designed for portable use. Also keep in mind that for normal playback speed is not a consideration since everything plays at 1x. Reference Information: Tested on: HP Envy 850-065se, Intel i7 6 core CPU, 24GB RAM NVidia GTX 960 w/4GB RAM Samsung 1TB SSD boot drive Seagate 4TB SSHD (8GB SSD + 4TB HD) Win7 - Ultimate

Sin duda para medios ópticos la calidad es lo más importante. No confío en productos genéricos para almacenar mi información. Es por eso que elegí comprar esta unidad por su excelente reputación y fabricación japonesa. Muy sólida en construcción y rápida en rendimiento.

Quality unit so far

Easy to use, quite and well built.

Wie schon vermutet wurde das Gerät mit einen Steckernetzteil ausschließlich für den US Markt geliefert. Leider kein universal Stecker. Ich bin mir nicht sicher ob das Gerät wirklich neu ist. Die Verpackung war sichtlich lädiert, könnte sich um ein Retouren Gerät handeln. Funktion soweit ok habe es mit dem Netzteil des zweiten Gerätes geprüft welches ich schon länger besitze. Habe mir ein Steckernetzteil mit 12V 3A nach bestellt.

Tener varios soportes para copias de seguridad garantiza recuperar tus archivos con mayor probabilidad si pasa algo. La laptop que tengo ya no incluye unidad de disco, y de vez en cuando es necesario leer un dvd o bd de respaldos anteriores, así como generar alguno con la información que se va acumulando. Hasta ahora, esta unidad ha cumplido con su objetivo sin problemas.