I bought the drive because it can cooperate well with the iMac is. This I can confirm. Works really 1a and "recommended" compared to other drives this actually costs significantly less. The processing is today's standard plastic, not very nice, but I want the drive indeed win a design award. But who can remember the early days of CD burners, since Plextor was once the brand par excellence ... well, that seems to be for some time past. The drive reads DVDs BluRays and without problems and for my taste even rather quickly. The noise is, however, hardly to ignore, so who wants to make the drive next to the monitor and then also a movie, which should better look for a quieter version. Pleasant is at least the fact that the drive does not require more electricity, which it refers entirely from the USB port. All in all I am actually very happy, if not for one small thing: After 4 months the unit has suddenly only read DVDs, no more BluRays. First thought my Mac like the drive suddenly stopped, but my Windows machine then seemed to be offended. Since I could no longer be exchanged at Amazon, so turned directly to the Plextor service ... who then indeed works really well, but also has some pitfalls: At first I could edit the RMA form only in English ... I do not mind, but not everyone can speak English. Unsettled but had me the fact that I then get a package brand of GLS Netherlands. So checked with Plextor, but had then been his accuracy. But then came the real blast: I did the package, which I had put ready for collection and tracking. If I then logged me in GLS, with the data transmitted by Plextor, then I was able to see all people with name and address, the currently want to return a device to Plextor ... That can not be times! Privacy policy looks different.
In summary: POSITIVE: - No additional power supply required - Quick drive - Easy to use even the Mac
NEGATIVE: - Defective after 4 months - Processing could be valent - Lack of privacy when sending to Plextor - Noise
Conclusion: If the drive is running, it does the job wonderfully and I do not use it for film look, I do not mind the noise. I would therefore buy the drive back because the price / performance ratio. I had, incidentally, get a new drive from Plextor, has total lasted one week ... so quite OK.
Why only 3 stars? 1 star deduction for the missing data protection Complaints 1 star deduction that the unit was defective at all ... that would be my old CD burner from Plextor does not happen.
The device as "scrap" to declare as some other reviewers I think is exaggerated.
