I/O Magic Internal DVD+/-RW Drive (IDVDRW8D) (IDVDRW8D)

My Dell doesn't "mesh" well with DVD I/O devices. Although it can play movies, trying to burn DVD's on it is a hit or miss. Driver problems plague this device and there's no support from I/O. Name brand is the better way to go. Save your money.

I bought this at circuit city as it was one of the cheapest they had. Went home, took it out of the box and installed in my computer. Installed the drivers and burned an ISO file, worked fine. I've only had 1 failed disk as my computer locked up while burning a dvd. It's not the fastest burning but for the price it's great, takes about 5-10 minutes to burn a dvd, much quicker for cd's. If your not looking to waiste too much money go with this.

Unit now works flawlessly and read and burns disk without problem after upgrading the firmware on the drive. Pinicle software did not see the drive until I went to BTC.COM and downloaded the liveupgrade utility which sent the software from version 0.54 to 1.59. Now it burns at 8X without problems. Given the cost of burning software can be more than this bundle I am very happy.

I just put mine in, no need to upgrade firmware or anything. I recommend using I copy DVDs 2. Works like a charm, especially at movies and games. Mine diodnt come with pinnacle it came with Roxio dvd creator. I just used my own dvd copy program, I have already burned 8 dvds and not one is a coaster.

IOMAGIC is not a listed supported DVD burner on the Pinnacle Systems (www.pinnaclesys.com) website (this drive comes with Pinnacle software). No wonder, I have wasted 3 DVDs and precious hours trying to coax the software to create one successful DVD from this drive! I have had the same problems are others in this forum - drive not recognized, burner software troubles etc....

Please do not buy this drive if you value your time and money!!