PioneerElectronics BDR-XS07UHD 6x Slot Loading CD DVD BluRay Portable USB 3.1 BD/DVD/CD Burner Supports Blu-Ray, BDXL, and M-Disc Format, Black

If you are into ripping your 4K movies to your NAS or other media storage and you don't want to have to change the built-in firmware by flashing your drive, this is the perfect solution. I had seen a post elsewhere that this drive had been given new firmware which removed the ability to rip 4K movies, but I just received mine two days ago and it works like a charm using MKV to rip DVD's, Blu-ray's and 4K movies. The drive is tiny and takes up very little space on your desktop, partly due to the slot loading design. The drive in my desktop computer would rip DVD's and Blu-rays with MKV, but not 4K discs, so I was studying the methods of flashing SOME existing drives with new firmware, including mine. However, my drive in my computer was not among those which could be flashed, so I had to get a new drive, but I didn't really want to have to remove my old drive and install the new one (most of those that are 4K ready are internal drives). Then I ran across this one on Amazon and took a chance that it would work as the reviews stated...to rip 4K movies with MKV. It works great an is pretty fast and quiet. I have been able to rip all of my 4K movies to my NAS and they play back just great using the player on my Hisense 4K TV. Oh, and delivery from the vendor was super quick to boot!

for 4k, this is so much better and faster than my previous solution, a full size asus in a 120V powered enclosure with USB2 data. I had 3 BDR-XS06 slot loading pioneers, nice but which don't work for 4K. Plus the bulky asus which i use for 4k.i use 1 USBC port for my disk array and have 3 available for BD drives. so even though this is crazy expensive i'll buy 2 more so that all my drives are 4K compatible. USB2 on the asus doesn't matter for speed (it's plenty fast enough for BD reading), but it is very convenient to need only the usbc cables everywhere.fantastic product. 10 years old!!! but makemkv has only supported it since about Feb 2022.

This works perfectly for both my imac(ventura13.6.4) and pc(windows 11). I’m able to use this with makemkv to back up all my physical DVDs onto my computer. I was concerned about the new firmware but I’m having no issues.

The main reason I bought this was to play normal and 4K Blu-Rays. It's relatively easy to everything up for regular Blu-Rays (use VLC and then download some libraries). But I haven't been able to play 4K discs because, as one other reviewer said, the 1.03 firmware doesn't really work. I suspect it's not jiving with my AMD CPU or GPU.There was a review from early last year by Adamknowsbest that said this worked for him, but I think that's because he got a device with old firmware on it. I'm not able to flash this drive to put on the old firmware and the MakeMKV forums say the same thing.I think if you had an Intel CPU with a motherboard that has SGX this will work because I sort of remember reading a Reddit post from 8 months ago where they toggled that feature off and on. So you might have better luck there.Other than that, it looks sleek and seems to have high quality construction.

Purchased this drive as the reviews stated it was capable of handling my UHD needs for gaining access to my media for storage. Unfortunately when I insert the media it reads the disc BUT it is unable to retrieve it off the disc for a copy. I wanted to make sure it was UHD only and inserted a standard Blu-Ray and it gathered the data without a problem. So the drive itself is locked out of UHD files.If you want to use it for Blu-Ray the drive will work fine out the box but if you want to use it for UHD find another option as this drive is not the one for you. October 2024 they ship with 1.0.3 firmware if that matters or not.

Well, I finally got into UHD. Disc(s) & player. Wanted to backup my UHD disc(s). DVDFab (which i bought) does not recognize this drive. DVDFab does recognize my BR player, but not the UDH. "makeMKV" shareware version, so far, has the UDH backing up.MakeMKV v1.17.3 win(x64-release) startedUsing LibreDrive mode (v01.0 id=CA5C627C459A)Backing up disc into folder ...Evaluation version, 30 day(s) out of 30 remainingDownloading latest HK to ...Loaded content hash table, will verify integrity of M2TS filesThis was just delivered today, makeMKV installed today, started backing up today. No firmware update.AMD 3800xRaedon RX 5700 RT64 GB Ram

I use this primarily with MakeMKV to convert my movie discs and put them into my home media server. It can handle 4k perfectly and has LIBRE support.It performs about the same as a full-size 5.25 SATA unit - which is rare for a portable USB unit. I only have a few hours on it so far so I cannot speak to the long term reliability or support. But I expect it to work perfectly for my needs. UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD, CD, it can handle them all. I especially appreciate the slot-load version of this drive - no tray to deal with.I am delighted by how QUIET this drive is. Extremely smooth transport on it. Many of my previous portable disc drives were noisy and shake quite a bit at high rotational speeds. But this one seems to have exceptional balance and dampening built in.I have no negatives to report.So far I am very pleased with this unit and highly recommend it.