PIONEER DVR-S606spk External DVD Writer - Silver

by Pioneer

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 6.6 x 10.7 inches ; 4.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000E2XCK
• Item model number: DVR-S606spk
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 4, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The DVR-S606 is a high capacity optical storage system based on the Pioneer DVR-A06, the company's sixth-generation internal recordable drive. It enables users to write a wide variety of files to DVD for storage or playback in other DVD devices. Pioneer delivers its first external drive in a sleek industrial design that is quick and easy to install. The drive can sit vertically or horizontally, supports multiple DVD media formats, and plugs into standard IEEE 1394 (Firewire) and USB 2.0 ports.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PIONEER DVR-S606, August 19, 2004

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Braden Santo "bms" (Third Base) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PIONEER DVR-S606spk External DVD Writer - Silver (Personal Computers)

I have used this unit extensively for the past 10 months. It has performed flawlessly while burning somewhere in the vicinity of 1400 DVDs... That is not a misprint...fourteen hundred DVDs... Have used mostly 4x dvd-r with a burn time average of 14min.10sec... Performs equally well with my Toshiba laptop as it does with the Sony Vaio desktop... Easily outperforms the Sony 510 dvd+/-r internal in the desktop... The only disadvantage I have found is some of the 2x dvds only burn at 1x, but have have no problem with 4x discs in either plus or dash format... and yes, the DVD+r burn ed perfectly also

10 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars completely useless, June 18, 2004

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Tom Gillis (Kensington, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PIONEER DVR-S606spk External DVD Writer - Silver (Personal Computers)

I installed it on 4 different computers. The advertising material claims that it writes to both the DVD-RW and DVD+RW (as well as CD) formats, but Windows (as well as the sticker on the back of the unit) insists that it's compatible only with CD/DVD-.
The incompatibility issue ultimately didn't matter to me, because it didn't write to or read from ANY format on ANY of the 4 computers. It also caused problems with pre-existing CD/CVD drives.
Garbage.