ASUS DRW-24F1ST - DVD SATA SUPERMULTI Burner - SERIAL ATA - BLACK - OEM Bulk Drive

was purchased to replace a customers broken data connection on a SATA drive

I had to replace an DVD drive. So far this is a nice drive. Easy to install both the drive and software.

An easy swap using hardware from the old drive - it slid into place and I plugged it in. Win 10 recognized it and worked immediately.

One of the best DVD burners ive ever used for several reasons: - It will read and extract data from DVDs that no other burner can read. Discs that are scratched or dirty can sometimes be recovered with this drive. Not always, but most of the time. - This has the fastest burn rates ive ever seen. I can often burn a full DVD-R in around 6 minutes. - It can rip non-copyrighted movies super fast. I doubt there is any such thing as a speed lock on this drive. - If you move to another country you can change its region code easily (a limited number of times). 2-8-17 UPDATE: This has extremely poor compatibility with older devices. You burn a disc and its nearly impossible to read it on old 16x IDE burners. Pioneer, LG, Lite-On and NEC drives. This is major if you do any sort of video production. Ive wasted so many discs with high quality media trying to fix this issue. Burning at slower speeds does nothing. Note: Its NOT the media itself. There is also zero firmware updates for the drive since ive had it. 9-6-19 UPDATE: I reinstalled this drive after not using it for awhile. It is an extremely bad drive when used for burning Taiyo Yuden TYG03 16X DVD-R media. I once had 3 discs fail in a row. Strangely it fails burns more often at a slower speed of 8x. Fails are usually random. My record is probably only 6 burns in a row. PS I did defrag my hard drive and this made no difference at all.

It is what I expected and is working flawlessly

Its a disk drive, I used it to install Windows 10 and my motherboard drivers and unplugged it since its pretty loud at start up.

Worked as its supposed to.

Easy to install

Its a cheap drive, but it gets the job done quickly and efficiently. It can be loud when reading or writing at high speeds, and it most certainly doesnt have all the bells and whistles of other drives, but when you consider the price, it doesnt even matter. It works great for the price! Id gladly get it again for future builds!

Drive worked perfectly, no software to install. This drive was 1/5 the cost of the Hewlett Packard drive !. I have both, the original that came with the computer and this one. There is absolutely no different in performance. Make sure you order the CORRECT drive model for your specific HP computer