Customer Reviews

LG Electronics GDR-8163B 16x DVD-ROM Drive

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I don't know what the previous review is about - sounds bitter - I have used this drive before and it worked perfectly. Seems like the above reviewer had a defective DVD-ROM.

Here is the info from wikipedia:

"A DVD drive capable of reading Wii and GC discs

Only specific drives are capable of reading Wii and GC discs, obviously in addition to the drive you will also need it installed in a PC with proper drives. At present the only drives known to be capable of reading Wii and GC discs are the following:

* Hitachi LG GDR-8161b (IDE)

* Hitachi LG GDR-8162b (IDE)

* Hitachi LG GDR-8163b (IDE)

* Hitachi LG GDR-8164b (IDE)

* Hitachi LG GDR-H10NBLK (SATA)

* Hitachi LG GDR-8082N - USB SLIM Portable Drive"

If your in the market for this - then this is the DVD drive for you.

I bought two of these an both worked perfect! If your looking at these cause you want too mack backups of your original Wii an GameCube games then this is for you!

I just bought a used Dell computer, and this DVD-ROM was installed - may be original, maybe not. It seems to work just fine but makes a loud whirring noise on spin-up of the disk. A joke... I just wasted half an hour trying to make it write a CD, and then lookup up the details... it is just a reader. Hehe.

dont buy this dvd player.it will stop detecting dvd's after a while and lg doesn't seem to give a damn about this error.go online you will see that many lg dvd owners have this problem as well.dont buy!!!

I bought this it did not work on my computer so I haven't used it so I don't know how it works.

It is true that this drive works with rawdump to create ISOs of GCN and Wii games. I've already ripped one of my [legally-bought] games with it.

It is a rather old model (made in 2004), but that's not much of a problem. I did have to buy an IDE cord in order to connect it to my motherboard, which cost about $9. I would recommend opening your computer's tower and checking to see if it has an IDE cord already, otherwise you will have to buy one separate.

I am very happy with my purchase. It cost me a total of $23 dollars (drive + tax + IDE) in order to play GCN and Wii games on my computer using Dolphin.

If you are looking to backup wii or gamecube games, this is the drive for you. Works quite easily. Just download rawdump and you are all set. Also this drive is quite cheap and definately worth it.

I bought this drive and it has gave me good service. Working on used desktop computers is a hobby of mine and most of the time I wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall the Operating System, and to make this go smooth and trouble free you need a good drive, that is fast enough to get the job done and this 16x DVD-ROM Drive reads CDs at 52x, and when I am working on a machine that needs the OS reinstalled I just remove the drive thats in the machine and put this drive in and it always does a good job, you can just tell by the sound of it that its faster than most drives, and after the files get installed from the disc onto the hardrive and the OS installation is complete I remove this drive and put the original drive back in. Thats what I bought it for and I am pleased with it, It has been a usefull tool for me, and its price is resonable to so basically its a good drive and its cheap,I have nothing bad to tell about it.