Samsung Laptops I7 Optical Drive

Many laptops today are design without a optical drive, and I just recently purchased one. I wanted a drive that would do all the things I previously had access to do, and the Asus BW-161x was the winner hands down. There's nothing I could imagine to do that this drive could not do. Asus products have always stand up to my use, which was a big plus.

Plugged the unit in to six Samsung HD 65" TV's and the other end in to an HP i7 PC. Image quality was incredible (Used in Radiology lab). The HP even found a sound device and audio came out of every TV. More than I expected from this switcher!! A++

Needed a DVD drive as new laptops did not have one. This drive has all the features we needed and looks good too!

what a screaming hard drive best I have ever used way to go samsung!!!!!

Probably you won't use you Optical Drive anymore, you're in 2012 so just get this and add a second drive. It's amazing to buy this if you have an SSD and to keep you HDD. I use it in my Macbook Pro and rocks.

Added an SSD as my main drive and put my old Hard Drive in the Optical Bay. Don't use the CD Drive that much. Install was a piece of cake. Now I have more space for files/documents.

I installed this in a new computer I built with a Intel i7 2600 processor and 16 GB Corsair Vengance memory with a XFX HD 5770 video card and it makes for a very fast computer for editing very large video files and Raw images. This hard drive is fast and very quiet. Great drive!

Installed this in an older Core i7 tower to record security cameras with TrueNAS. After running exclusively SSDs for so long, this is a noisy drive, but it's working very well. Several high-bitrate cameras are recording to it simultaneously without write issues. It struggles to read the recorded data while it continues to record the camera feeds, but that's expected given the number of cameras I'm sending to a single drive right now.

I had an older laptop with an i7 CPU but Task Manager showed that the HDD at 100% slowed down the overall performance. With SSD technology so much improved and more affordable, replacing the HDD with this SSD resulted in a laptop that boots up almost immediately and runs Photoshop and Lightroom so much faster. It also uses much less power so the battery lasts longer. Acronis True Image for Crucial is a free downlead which lets you copy the entire HDD drive to the SSD mounted in an external USB drive. Next you remove the HDD and insert the SSD (if there is only one 2.5 slot). In the very rare situation in which the image copy did not work, the original HDD can still be used. Newer laptops use the smaller and faster M.2 form factor NVMe drives, but for older 2.5 drives this is the product to get. Make sure the drive is compatible with your PC or laptop which it is in almost all cases.

I bought this with my brand new Imac 27 i7 4.2ghz to edit 4k video projects.  I installed 2x 1tb Samsung SSD in a RAID 0.  I backup to a local USB 3.0 drive, but work off of this drive. This thing rips. No lag whatsoever. Spinning hard drives are dead to me after using this well-made little device. 100% recommending to all of my peers.