I use this for some months now drive under Windows 7 32bit and Windows 8 64bit Trade Condition as Optional read drive and am very happy with it. The burner is quite small and light, making it ideal to take him anywhere. By choice of different housing colors to adapt your device eg on his laptop. Burning I have not tested it but reading it does just about everything, I use it on my media to copy to an external hard drive and when one of my internal drives do not want, the Samsung comes into play. It makes no difference to me so much on speed to (there are the internal brisk) but it funzt anyway. Well the supplied cable is quite short (have even a "normal length USB cable used because he mucked, but is also in the instructions that you should use the original cable) and sometimes he gives some noises (I know but of other drives as well). But all in all you get for this price a good value. However I The scope of supply also still the Nero burning software to because of my Einastz-area not used have. I can issue a strong buy recommendation.