BUFFALO AMERICAS MEDIA STATION 16X BDXL BURNER EXTERNAL R/W BLU-RAY DRIVE BRXL-16U3

I just bought a high -dollar Brand Name Gaming desktop and it must have been put together by a true "Gamer who doesnt want to waste a penny on anything that doesn't have to do with games! It had a ced/dvd/blu ray reading drive with no burning capability and the flimsy drive they put in probably wouldn't last through installing the software into the machine. This is the answer to everything "storage" including using 100GB BD-XL discs to back up my NAS Drive. Add the fact that I can plug this into my Optical driveLESS Surface Pro and Surface 3 Pro and it drasticaslly increases the capability of any machine you plug it into!

I purchased this external optical drive because my gaming pc didn't come with an optical drive or have the room to add anything other than a DVD-R/RW slim drive. So far the drive is working great, it reads discs extremely fast. I've burned several blu-ray discs with it and haven't experienced any issues thus far. Also want to confirm that even though the system requirements only list up to Windows 8, it is fully compatible with Windows 10. I plugged the drive into my USB 3.0 port and it was instantly recognized and installed by Windows 10. Grab one while you can, the options are becoming less and less for Blu-ray optical drives as we further advance into the digital era.

I got this to use on my laptop, since there's no place to install an internal drive. My PC has an internal drive that also does M-DISC, and I was wishing I had ordered something for the laptop to do those, too. The specs say this drive doesn't support M-DISC, but I tried burning a 25GB Verbatim M-DISC. To my surprise, it worked! It burned it at 4x speed, same as my internal drive. From what I've read, the "DVD" type M-Discs require a drive that supports M-DISCs, and I haven't tried one of those on this yet, so no idea if it will burn one of those. This drive works on Linux (OpenSUSE LEAP 15.0) using K3B.