BUFFALO MediaStation Desktop 16x External Blu-ray Writer for PC with USB 3.0. TAA Compliant. Plays and Burns Blu-Rays, DVDs, and CDs.

I was a little skeptical about seeing much improvement, I have a brand new HP PC that is fast as greased lightening and so I pretty much expected everything in it to be fast but that was clearly not the case for the Blu-Ray R/W unit that is internal SATA bus attached and should be far faster than anything USB 3 attached but not so. Pro's: - Very Fast, hitting reads at 12x on DVD and 6.7x on BR, and everything else is even faster - True plug n' Play for Win7 (I have not tried Win10 or Mac) - Lay-Flat form factor - Motorized Tray, no fumbling with a pressure hub on a flimsy tray - Heavy with good rubber pads, does not slide around even on a slick surface - For Win7 all needed drivers are already part of the OS, no need to load their bloatware Con's: - Crippled software that is 6 major revisions behind and lots of nag screens to upgrade (Cyberlink's fault) - Count on buying the upgrade if you do not already own a BR authoring package (Cyberlink is a very good package, Roxio also if you prefer) The con's were not an issue for me, I already have the latest CyberLink PowerDirector & PowerDVD, Roxio Creator and other packages to deal with the discs. Here is a BR and DVD comparison to the build in BR unit in my PC (All tests were done on USB 3, USB 2 will be a lot slower) - Rip a 30GB HD home movie from Blu-Ray -- 16 Minutes on Buffalo / 34 Minutes on HP Player -- (30.2 M/s @6.7x Read) - Rip a 4GB HD home movie from DVD -- 4.5 Minutes on Buffalo / 22 Minutes on HP Player -- (16.1 M/s @ 12.2x) I have not found any tools this drive does not work well with including, MakeMKV, CyberLink PowerDirector, Replay Convert, VideoReDo+, VLC and of course WMC and WMP. It would be hard to be happier with the performance, the looks, size, and weight, for a desktop situation, this would not make a good portable drive it is took big and heavy compared to ones designed for portable use. Also keep in mind that for normal playback speed is not a consideration since everything plays at 1x. Reference Information: Tested on: HP Envy 850-065se, Intel i7 6 core CPU, 24GB RAM NVidia GTX 960 w/4GB RAM Samsung 1TB SSD boot drive Seagate 4TB SSHD (8GB SSD + 4TB HD) Win7 - Ultimate

The CD/BLUE RAY reader is well made and works perfectly. The seller has been very kind and solved quickly all my desires. I strongly suggest him. Shipping in Italy has been perfect and within the planned times.

This drive hits these right notes: * rest the disc in a tray and close - no snapping the disc onto/prying it off of a hub * Quiet. Almost no vibration * Works fine with Linux and Mac (on Mac I use the free MakeMKV beta to turn blu-rays into mkvs for desktop & iPad watching) * USB 3 makes the buffer pre-fills faster when burning. Read speed never saturates a USB 2 bus so backward compatibility is fine * Actual read speeds north of 30 megabytes/sec on blu-ray and the 12x on DVD is real * BDXL: up to 128GB capacity But most importantly: * Works fine with Netflix blu-ray rentals without peeling off the hub label Most slim PC blu-ray drives don't have enough clearance and have read problems on many discs or outright fail. I didn't check out the included Windows software. The suite looks impressive, but look to reviewers who normally use Windows for more. The only cons so far: * At $160, price is currently double what I'd like * DC power plug seems pretty flimsy: be very careful about the back of the unit not pressing up against anything and flexing the plug * Large unit, will chew up a bit of desk space (check the specs)

Beware, I bought one of these two years ago and loved it. But sadly after extended use it no longer burns but still plays and rips. I bought a replacement and was sent a Pioneer bdr-209m dressed in Buffalo's clothing. Buffalo tech support told me it was a driver problem with my computer. My computer seems to have to problem correctly identifying my other Buffalo, or my LG, or my Mitsubishi or even my Memorex. Still I did as they suggested and it made no difference. I tried it on my father's PC and it shows it as a Pioneer, took it to a friends and it still shows as a Pioneer on his PC. Three strikes and you're out Buffalo, returning it for an Amazon credit and will buy a different drive. This would have been my third Buffalo drive, have always liked their quality. Maybe someday they'll again sell their own drives and I'll try them out again. In the photo posted, the top one is the older one and you can see they're a little different. The bottom one is the new one and if you compare it with one of the Pioneer bdr-209m drives they sell here on Amazon you'll see they are identical except for the Pioneer logo. Update 2/7/17 I bought another Buffalo drive (40099860201915) from a different vendor. Same damn thing, a Pioneer BDR-209M on two different updated systems. It rips disc at at a third of the speed and is a much noisier unit, it just looks cheaper and is. You can buy the pioneer for just over $70 and a nice optical drive external enclosure for around $50 here at Amazon and have the same thing for less. Apparently Buffalo has found a way to save money and increase profits at the expense of their customers. I'll be contacting Amazon's purchasing dept. as they are also being ripper off and maybe even the BBB. Update 4/6/17 Filed complaint with BBB. In Buffalo's reply they did admit to using a Pioneer drive now so it was never a driver problem like their tech "support" claim three different times. They also claim it has the same specs as the older unit. Not true, I still have a working older unit and it's not a noisy and it reads and rips disc much faster, They also claimed this was some other problem related to software or computer. Couldn't believe them the first time and this claim also just doesn't hold water. The truth is this drive is just a cheep knock-off of the original, it even looks cheep, nothing like on the box. Do yourself a favor and go with the LG 14X BE14NU40 or the ASUS 12X (BW-12D1S-U Lite), I have both of those models as well and they're better blu ray drives. Not to mention you're getting what you pay for, not a cheep knock-off.

It’s only been 2 weeks, but so far all seems good. Read speed is very fast and it appears to be very solid. It is not small compared to other portable disc readers. Would definitely recommend

Using it to create my plex library. It's working like a champ on new blurays/dvds and decent on somewhat scratched blurays/moderately scratched dvds. Many of our discs were left out of the sleeves and cases for long periods of time with kids playing around/on them and I'm surprised that I've been able to rip over half of them. It feels solid and I feel like I made a good purchase. Works well with MakeMKV

I had ordered a different writer/burner last year when my pictures on my hard drive started to corrupt. I got one from a different brand after researching for days. I hated it! It spit out half of the disks as errors when some of them were perfectly fine and it took anywhere from 2-8 hours to write one disk and half the time spit it out halfway to two thirds of the way through it was infuriating! However! This year I needed to find another one due to my computer having serious issues and most likely needing to be wiped. I did more research and decided on this one! The software you have to download is a little confusing but I got through it. I've done one disk so far with no issues! It hasn't spit the disk out, completely finished the writing in less than 30 minutes (wrote about 20gb) and is more than 60% through the verification at less than 40 minutes total so far for everything! I may skip the verification next time to cut down on time but I'm honestly really impressed and will be keeping this one!!

HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH16NS58 Firmware: 1.02 Tested and reads OK. According to Buffalo Americas manual, likely either a LG or Sony Blu-ray drive, mine happened to be an LG. No updated firmware via manufacturer website(s), but firmware maybe compatible with other later updated LG products, such as the WH16NS60 Blu-ray internal drive. Updated my WH16NS60 from 1.02 to 1.03, and I have not tried updating this Buffalo portable this Buffalo LG BH16NS58 drive yet. Firmware may require updating for playing Blu-ray Movies and other protected media. Updating firmware is risky; rule of thumb for firmware updates, do not upgrade if not needed. 2026.01.08 Update after purchasing through Amazon.com owned Woot store front, I subsequently registered the device for obtaining software, for which said software is already included with the vaguely marked CD/DVD within the box; and obtained the following odd response through Email a few days later: --- Snip --- Our sincere apologies, but due to Woot's violation of reseller policy, this unit is not eligible for registration and carries no warranty coverage. This mailbox is not monitored. Any replies to this message will not be answered. (MASKED NAME) Warranty Claims Coordinator Buffalo Americas --- Snip --- So heads-up, if you're purchasing this or other items through Woot, warranty may not be applicable, for which is very odd in my opinion. However, due to the shortage of Blu-ray drives, think most of us will be thankful having for their photography or document long term storage solution. Shrugs....

encantando con el lector, super rapido, muy bonito y silencioso.

Quality unit so far

Easy to use, quite and well built.

Used it only 3 times and stopped opening the door. Big disappointment

Loved it thank you ❤️