IDVD8PEB DVDrw Portable Design for dell Blk Piano Finish with powerdvd

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B001F0MZC0
• Item model number: IDVD8PEB
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,166 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 29, 2008

Product Description

Product Description

I/OMagic's 8X Dual Format USB 2.0 DVD Rewritable Slim External drive simplifies DVD ReWritable technology with one unit that does it all, giving you the ability to read and write to popular formats. Dual Format technology gives you the freedom to choose the media format that is most compatible with your computer or home DVD player, while the Double Layer technology allows you to store twice as much data on DVD DL media, that's up to 8.5GB of storage. You can create your own DVD movies and music CDs, then view or listen them from your computer. Easily backup files save data, and graphics to DVD disk to free up valuable hard disk space. Take advantage of lightning fast data transfer rates with its USB 2.0 support. space. Take advantage of lightning fast data transfer rates with its USB 2.0 support (480 Mbits/sec).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Can read, but can't write in OS X, August 16, 2009

By	He who spends too much (Chicago) - See all my reviews

I desperately needed a portable/external CD/DVD drive to install Windows on a separate partition of my MacBook AIR (no optical drive). I had absolutely no desire to deal with the nearest Apple Store, so I swung by a competitor and took a chance on this drive.

Fortunately, it was recognized by the AIR and Mac OS and I was able to successfully install Windows. Unfortunately, burning isn't supported under OS X.I knew that there was a chance that this drive wouldn't work at all on my Mac and the retail packaging explicitly states that it's only supported by Windows XP/VISTA & Ubuntu, so I'm not deducting any stars for that.

The only cons, aside from the lack of Mac burning support, were that the tray sometimes gets stuck on eject. For the price, it would have also been nice if they included a power supply instead of making us purchase it off of their website.

The drive served its purpose, though I'll still likely be purchasing the Apple external drive.


P.S. It plays DVDs just fine under OS X, if that was a concern of yours.

5.0 out of 5 stars USB power, January 27, 2009

By	Mr. Steven D. Demaree (Shreveport, LA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I ordered my I/O magic drive from Dell with my Mini, but as mentioned, it does not come with a power supply although it has an input for one. This was fine until I purchased a Western Digtital external drive from Amazon and tried to use them at the same time. I have a problem with the Mini powering both of them. I just wish I could find the supply here at Amazon instead of dealing with I/O magic. Overall I still give it a five.