LG6X WP50NB40 External Portable Blu-ray Burner in Retail Box Bundle with 50GB Verbatim M-Disc BD-R DL and Cyberlink Burning Software

Recently my external SSD failed and I feared that all of my data was lost. A high-end company reported that the drive was too corrupted for any salvage.Thankfully I had an older My Book HDD and a handful of flash drives. ALL of that material was saved! What a gut-wrenching trauma that was, though. NEVER AGAIN.This is the drive to burn 100gb BDXL Blu-Ray M-Discs. I bought the same exact LG model as it had BDXL in the title and specs, but the "100gb" is the key. Look for "100gb" support with any burner you look at.I have burned four 100gb discs - a little under 88gb each. All are readable - their files can be copied and work fine. The videos play as they should.Note that with the 100gb M-Discs, the actual loading capacity is around 92gb. This is a usual thing with all recordable discs as they require space for their system files.M-Discs burn differently, not using organic dyes as with traditional DVD/CD types. They are approved for Archival storage.Note that I have commented little on the actual drive. This is because it plugged and played perfectly with my Windows 11 desktop PC. I did not use the included burning software as it is confusing and irritating. I opened the My PC icon and dragged/dropped the files to this drive. Doing a lot of gigs takes some time but my data is now safer in one more way.Final note: You MUST have a Blu-Ray drive to read Blu-Ray M-Discs. THIS drive reads them perfectly, yet the standard drive on my PC here and at work do not. The disc does not even appear once loaded. You may want to confirm that the 100gb discs will play on Blu-ray drives in-general. They may not as these discs are triple-layer. I am only now checking on this.Back. Up. Your. Data!

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This drive has been working great for me. It's plug-and-play with no driver installation needed on macOS and Linux (and I presume Windows, but haven't used with it).It's small and lightweight enough to be a great portable drive if you want to carry one in your laptop bag.But that size and lack of weight has its downsides. The tray doesn't pop out all the way on its own, akin to built-in CD/DVD drives in laptops back when they actually still had those, so you have to pull it out the remainder of the way to insert or remove a disc. Then when pushing it back in, it's not heavy enough to hold itself in place, so you need to hold it down while pushing the tray in. The tray is flimsy-feeling, also similar to built-in drives in laptops back in the day.I don't swap discs frequently enough to care, but if I heavily used the drive, I would get a full-size 5.25" drive (akin to those found in desktop PCs) in an external chassis instead of this one, since it's sitting on my desk and not mobile. Those have much sturdier trays, they fully eject and retract on their own, and you don't feel like you have to be careful to not break it.It's definitely a good portable drive. But if you're not actually going to take it anywhere, you'd be better served by a sturdier full-size drive in my opinion.

This drive worked great for around 10 months. It quit working around the first of August. I purchased this on Amazon October 12, 2019. I only used this off and on during that time. I have another drive which is still working that I purchased around 3 or 4 years but it’s a different brand. I finally got time to test this more thoroughly tonight. I tried this on my Macintosh and also a desktop PC and it just makes funny noises. The Mac no longer recognizes it and the PC sees the drive but it thinks there is no disc inserted. I would not recommend this drive unless you only expect your electronics to last 10 months.

[UPDATE from 2 to 5 star .... power issue]Everything below that’s good is still good. My issue below seems to stem from a problematic USB drive that would not power the second USB plug required. No clue why this would cause the drive to almost work (vs not working at all) but plugging directly into power adaptor with second USB out of a desire to just try anything and suddenly everything is working again.- original below -Everything worked surprisingly well with this for the first half a year or so. Past drives and past discs would not have had the 100% success rate using the M-Drive permanent write and 50-100 gig discs but this did. Still after over half a year I never had it write a bad disc. It just suddenly stopped recognizing all discs other than audio discs. Won't write anything, won't read or write m-discs any longer. and no support left because $100 tech equipment is not supposed to last even a full year any more.

This drive is fantastic! I don't use the included software at all, I just use Windows' built in writing for file backups and free ImgBurn for writing any type of images. I've written hundreds of discs since getting it, often several discs back to back, and I have yet to encounter any issues. I've written 25GB Blu-rays, DVDs, and CDs no problem. This is a great drive that I can use for all the computers in my house, especially my current desktop that doesn't have optical drive slots in the case.My only complaint is it doesn't read UltraHD Blurays. Also requiring two USB plugs is a bit annoying, and I wish it was USB-C. Requiring 2 USB plugs doesn't really work for compact laptops that only have 1 plug, and the second plug that's used for extra power isn't on a long enough wire to easily plug into a wall USB charger adapter.

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I have never dealt with more frustrating software. After updating it to try and get it to work (which has to be done manually, in 2022), it won't even run.The drive itself is great, but I wasted $30 on software that is not only like 7 versions out of date, but also just doesn't even work.