Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22970 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: DekCell

Features

• Dekcell USB 2.0 External Rewriteable DVD +/- RW Drive is so slim that you can put it into your pocket! No additional AC adapter and software needed, supports plug and play, this portable external DVD burner lets you can instantly watch DVDs and create DVDs, CDs with your notebooks, tablet PCs and desktop PCs. Featuring fast DVD record speeds, the Slim DVD+/-RW Drive burns at 8x speeds in DVD-R and DVD+R formats.
• Plug and play, no additional software drivers needed. USB 2.0 Interface.
• Speed: 24x CD/CD-R/CD-RW (read), 24x CD-R (write), 24x CD-RW (write), 8x DVD (read), 8x DVD (write). Supported CD Formats: CD Text, CD Extra, CD-DA (audio), CD-ROM XA, Photo CD, CD-ROM. Supported Media Types: CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL
• Media Load Type: Tray. Enclosure Type: External. Enclosure Color: Black. Powered from the computer's USB port, no AC adapter required. Dimensions (WxDxH): 5.6" x 6.1" x 0.75". Weight: 0.9 lbs . Software Requirement: Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP
• Brand new, one year warranty!

Customer Reviews

worthless, WinXP cant see it
Same as other customer. Ive struggled for weeks now, to make this drive work on my Sony Vaio w/ WinXP. Same error, "USB device not recognized or malfunctioned." Ive tried every drive I could find on the planet, to no avail. And BrilliantMedia's web site is no help. Giving up.

Good Idea -- Flimsy quality.
Well First of all, if you buy a slim drive most likelly its because you plan to carry it around but the case of this drive is just too weak. if you hold it by the top to close the drive, the plastic is so weak it bends down preventing the drive from closing. The drive inside it was a Sony drive, but for some reason, it WONT read CDRW disks unless you use the external AC adapter (tried with several systems and all possible solutions found in forums including firmware updates). Now some good things: basically no problem to get it recognized by XP, Very quiet operation (considering other laptop drives i've heard). Conclusion: Not recomended unless you are a very very careful person and dont want to use it to write or read cds (DVDs work great)

would be great, if....
I bought this affordable drive and tried to use it on my XP laptop at home and my XP desktop at work. Both have all the recent service packs and updates, but the device will not start. Plug and Play reports it as an unknown usb device.

I'm going to have to send it back. I'd go with a recognized Plug and Play compliant manufacturer.