Looking for external USB CD/DVD read/write device. Recommendations ?

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My wife is purchasing a netbook with no internal CD/DVD writing device, so we plan to purchase an external CD/DVD USB-2.0 read/write device.

Our local PC shop has the following 3 external USB-2.0 DVD read/write devices:

(a) Samsung DVD-Burner SE-S084F/RSBS [not listed on Samsung site - too old ? ]
(b) LG DVD-Burner GE24NU21 USB2.0 [not listed on LG site - too old ? ]
(c) Super-Multi Portable DVD Rewrite (GP10 Lite USB2.0 Slimline) GP10NB20 (mentions Mac OS/X support, which is encouraging)

None of those are listed in the openSUSE HCL.

Has anyone successfully used any of these with GNU/Linux (my google surfing on this revealed no GNU/Linux complaint nor any success stories) ?

Or is there another such external USB-2.0 read/write DVD burner device that is recommended ?

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On 07/30/2011 10:16 AM, oldcpu wrote:
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> Or is there another such external USB-2.0 read/write DVD burner device
> that is recommended ?

the absolute least expensive (i don’t expect any i can afford is going
to last more than a couple of years!) on the shelf here in February was
a “LITEON Model eTAU108”
<http://www.liteonit.eu/optical-storage-dvd-rw-external-slim/etau108.html>

used it (and the Win7 my ACER netbook was born with) to burn and install
11.4 DVD…the DVD drive just worked for everything i’ve used it
for…so far…it was surprisingly inexpensive (about $40 (US)) on the
retail shelf…so, if it only last a year it will be a better bargain
than the internally mounted reader/writer i put in a tower in 2006, for
about $100 (US)…which lasted a couple of years, only.

small, light, thing, includes short lead…(no power cord or wall wart
powered via USB)

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On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:16:03 +0000, oldcpu wrote:

> Or is there another such external USB-2.0 read/write DVD burner device
> that is recommended ?

What I have done in the past is purchased a USB enclosure with an ATAPI
interface inside it, then just plugged a working ATAPI burner (in my
case, a Sony drive) into the enclosure.

That seemed to work just fine. You can go fairly cheap on the drive that
way, as most drives are much faster than the USB bus can handle.

Jim

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