Customer Reviews

LG Electronics GH22NS50 22X SATA Super Multi DVD+/-RW Internal Drive - Bulk with Software (Black)

5 star:		(27)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I bought this drive to replace an older LG that had worked well until I broke the tray by accident. Installation was easy but when I booted my computer up popped an odd icon called "Bluebirds". Come to find out, it is some horrible firmware permanently install on the drive. I took a couple of days, but I found a site with other users, one of which created a program to strip this program. It worked. What was LG thinking of? The drive works well enough but you can buy any number of great drives for the same price, without being angered by unwanted bloatware. Good going LG, annoy the customers so they won't buy your products in the future!

Ordered this from Amazon and had it in a week. Beware that it is a raw drive. No cables or instructions included. It is pure SATA so you will need both a SATA data cable, and a SATA power cable, or adapter if you PS does not have SATA connections.

Installation was simple, pop it in, connect the power and data cables. My system found it on boot with no problems. My software has not problems with it. I did not install any of the software that came with it. Nor much of a review, but then it is just a DVD burner and ther is not much to say other than it works.

The drive was easy to install, and already has the newest firmware TN01. No more "bluebirds" and no need for you to search for and install the new firmware. The drive is OEM, not retail, but does come with some software : LG Burning Tools, LG Power Tools, PowerDVD, Power Producer, YouCam, and Norton Internet Security trial.

Can understand another reviewer's disgust with the preinstalled Bluebirds software. LG screwed up on that one, but the LG support site does tell you how to get rid of it. Have a feeling they took a lot of flak over this screwup. All that aside, it's a good DVD burner that does what it's supposed to do and does it quietly. Easy to install (but aren't they all) and worked right out of the box, even using Amazon's $1.30 cables. Chose to ignore the Cd that came with it as Nero 9 recognized the drive and works fine with it. At this price, it's a very good value. Now, if it will just last longer than the Samsung it's replacing.

I bought this bare bones DVD writer to replace a failed unit. It installed and operated without any issues on my Vista 64 bit system. The drive is quiet and fast. So far it has performed well for me.

It ships with driver software and I would recommend it to anyone who needs a bare bones no cables replacement drive.

I ordered with free shipping and got in 2 days! Awesome!
The drive plugged right in, no firmware woes or anything.
It does what its meant to do and without any fuss so Im very happy with it and Amazon.

Installation of this DVD drive in my Windows 7 64-bit system was a snap. (Asus M4A87TD-EVO motherboard with AMD Phenom II X4 CPU) The BIOS and OS recognized it straight away, making it easy and fast to complete construction of my system. The only quirk that I experienced (and the reason for 4-stars instead of 5) is that it made a horrible (yet not deafening) grinding noise during the first hour or so of operation. The noise sounded like some moving plastic part that had an extra bit of something on it due to an aging plastic mold that's been overused in manufacturing it. Despite the noise, it worked as expected and within a few days the noise vanished (before I got around to doing an RMA-return) So I kept it and since then I've used it a lot during the last two months to install lots of software onto my PC and burn over 60 CD's. I find it quieter and much faster than any of my other DVD drives that I've purchased during the past few years.

As for odd pop-ups that I saw mentioned in another review of this drive...I don't see any of them. The latest driver was easy to find on the LG website and it didn't come along with any unexpected bloatware.

My old one took a dump on me so I bought this one and it works great, No problems with installation or use. I highly recommend this drive.

I ordered this unit for a friend who wasn't computer savvy.
It arrived within a week and installation was just plug it in
and away we go. The drive has been performing perfectly.

This LG SATA DVD drive works great and records fast.
For the money I don't think you could do better.
Just have an extra SATA data and power cable handy.