Brando Workshop has released a USB Portable DVD Multi Drive for only $78, which looks like a great price.
If lack of a DVD Drive is the drawback of your PC/notebook, like the new Asus Eee PC and Macbook Air, you may consider this USB Portable DVD Multi Drive. It is compatible with all computers and notebook, as long as they have a USB port.
Drive: Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-841S
CD Read/Write speed: 24x, 10x
DVD Read/Write speed: 8x, 4x, 2.4x, 5x
Support Media(Read): DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Support Media(Write): DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Modes: Packet, TAO, DAO, SAO, RAW SAO
Buffer Memory: 2MB
Weight: 314g
Size: 13.7 x 13.3 x 1.8 cm
Operating System: Windows Vista, Windows XP Home or Professional (SP2), Windows 2000 (SP4)
February 5, 2008 at 1:08 pm |
“If lack of a DVD Drive is the drawback of your PC/notebook, like the new Asus Eee PC and Macbook Air, you may consider this USB Portable DVD Multi Drive.”
“Operating System: Windows Vista, Windows XP Home or Professional (SP2), Windows 2000 (SP4)”
How stupid is that…?
February 5, 2008 at 4:22 pm |
Probably means that, if any drivers come with the drive, they are Windows ones?
February 6, 2008 at 5:25 am |
this is the same oem drive that most laptop have in their multibay… toshiba, ibm/lenovo/lg use this one… it isn’t that great.
February 6, 2008 at 8:54 am |
Any idea if this works on Linux too?
February 6, 2008 at 9:31 am |
Haven’t tried it, but, it should do…
February 7, 2008 at 10:15 am |
Bah, It requires an AC adapter…. why cant anyone release a decent USB powered Slim DVD drive???
February 7, 2008 at 7:21 pm |
External drives typically require too much current for an ordinary USB port. That’s why the AC adapter is necessary.
February 10, 2008 at 8:01 am |
My 3 year old has a battery powered external dvd reader I paied $80 for why dosen’t that one requier so much current that it has to have an AC port. Come to think of it, if AC power was really requiered wouldn’t laptops that come with these drive requier too much battery power?
I think laptopmakers are still having a hard time not collecting $600+ for their product.
Someone should make an external dvd drive that runs off of AA batteries I pick up at the airport so I can get a pc like this and play video games on the plane without having toinstall a crack to getthe game torun without a cd.
February 15, 2008 at 9:07 pm |
Hey, Ald:
What’s wrong with a “crack”, especially one that enhances the functionality of an application that is defective by design?
Leisure software that requires the physical presence of (an overpriced) CD or DVD is barking up an outmoded tree in the garden of the pathetic and the irrelevant. The more we are required to shunt discs around, the greater the likelihood one will get damaged. Let’s celebrate the talent of the cracker-community, ‘cos the crackers really are serving the best interests of the ordinary bottom feeder who is forced to pay top-dollar for bloatware.
February 15, 2008 at 9:42 pm |
“What’s wrong with a “crack”, especially one that enhances the functionality of an application that is defective by design?”
Illegality, primarily.
February 16, 2008 at 12:40 am |
That would make it illegal, not wrong
February 17, 2008 at 9:02 am |
You have to be careful about external drives. If they don’t have external AC power, they probably have a 2 USB splitter that takes power from two USB ports and puts it into the drive, which lets it have enough power.
http://www.asuseeepcstore.com/news
February 19, 2008 at 9:26 am |
“That would make it illegal, not wrong”
And there’s a fair argument, that, committing a crime is wrong.
February 26, 2008 at 5:29 am |
this is definitely what I am looking for.,, how durable is it?
but I don’t think I need it for now…
March 2, 2008 at 3:09 am |
Do you think you can replace the DVD drive with another one? Take the one its using and replace with aonther drive to use as an external drive?
March 2, 2008 at 9:34 pm |
As in, take the drive out of the caddy? I’m not sure that that would work with this drive, as I don’t know the caddy structure.