As a reult of this drive not working I can’t download the software needed for my digital camera, mp3 player or the digital voice recorder I use to record lectures. It came with this drive and the stupid thing hasn’t worked! As long as I have had it this drive has NEVER read any cds other than music cds, though occasionally they skip all the way through even though they don’t skip when I play them on my stereo. I just bought a Toshiba A105-S4114 from Circuit City. Nero InfoTool gives the following report on the capabilities of the drive: Drive:īasically, the drive supports almost every format you could possible want! Note the difference in what Panasonic believe is the drive speed, and what Nero reports. The official capabilities of the drive are:

It is also suitable for appropriate SFF PCs, and could be used in conjunction with the right housing to provide a slim line external DVD burner. The drive is a standard 12.7mm notebook unit that should fit most notebooks. That’s good going even by desktop standards.įor the purposes of this review, an Acer Travelmate 800 was used as the test notebook, replacing its standard QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. However it is easily purchased from any number of websites, and for a surprisingly reasonable cost, especially considering that is dual-layer, slot-loading, and supports DVD-RAM. Marketed as an OEM drive, the UJ-845 is unlikely to be found in retail stores. The latest notebooks will undoubtedly contain a DVD burner, but the great majority will be lacking this feature. Typically a notebook will have a CD burner, possibly with DVD reading capabilities.

One of the few upgrades paths is the optical drive. The parts are difficult to obtain, are generally more expensive, and people are nervous about opening up an expensive piece of equipment. Notebooks are not usually big on upgrade potential.

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