Plextor DVD-RW 12X/4X/16X ( PX-712A/SW )

Rating:
Summary: An excellent device
Review: I use the 'Firewire/USB2' version of this DVD-RW and I am absolutely satisfied with the performance and the features of this writer. I use it on both, a Mac (under OS X with firewire) and PC (under Windows XP with USB2) and it works flawless. This is truely 'plug and play'. The writing speeds are excellent and I have not burned any 'coasters' so far. It supports all DVD and CD medias and the DVDs (DVD+R and DVD-R) play on all of my DVD players. The picture quality is excellent. The bundled software is very good as well, for Apple (Toast 6.0 lite) and for PC (Roxia software bundle).
This drive comes also with some excellent Plextor tools (e.g. overburning of CDs, error diagnostics and my favorite, drag and drop to disk which makes moving files to and from a DVD very easy).