Product Description
LG Electronics WH14NS40 14X SATA Blu-ray Internal Rewriter , (Black)
Product Details
- Color: Black
- Brand: LG
- Model: WH14NS40
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.50" h x 1.60" w x 5.70" l, 1.20 pounds
Features
- Drive Type: Super-Multi Internal SATA Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
- BD-R SL/DL: 14X/12X
- CD-RW: 24X
- Buffer Memory: 4MB
- Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Most helpful customer reviews
54 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
Not Riplocked! Wonderful Drive
By Pat
I'm not using this drive for burning just yet. I'm ripping my Blu collection to my harddrive and using Handbrake to compress them to ~4GB files for my XBMC media server. In the past I used my laptops built in blu-ray reader to rip the disks, but it was locked at 2X and it took over an hour to rip a disk. I had to change something so I bought this and put it in my HTPC.
WOW. I ripped a 22 GB blu using MakeMKV in 9 minutes. That's a 22GB file in 9 minutes. It topped out at around 11X at nearly 40MB/s. I would say an average read rate of 30-33MB/s would be correct. It seems impossible to find this kind of information on the net about the ripping capabilities of these drives so I just wanted to let people know that it rips FAST. I love it and I am super happy with it. It ripped a 40+GB file in around 27 minutes.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic Writer - Burns anything!
By Peter Brockie
I got this - well, asked my wife to get me it as an early Christmas gift - to replace the cheaply made Blu-Ray USB External Player DVDRW I had picked up a while ago which stopped reading CDs/DVDs and was having issues with Blu-ray discs. I'm currently limited to 6-7x max as my system is only USB 2.0. I currently have the drive in a Vantec USA NexStar DX External 5.25-Inch Optical Drive Enclosure USB 3.0 External Interface Optical Drives 14700365 (NST-530S3-BK) so I can take advantage of more speed when I upgrade my system.
This drive has been rock solid so far, reading Blu-rays around 3.5x-7x (modern drives ramp up in speed as they get to the outside of the disc). The aforementioned drive started at ~0.7x and topped out at 3-ish. Both using the same USB 2.0 connection. UPDATE: I've since switched to a desktop and installed drive directly without the USB limitation and the speed has increased nicely.
This drive will pretty much burn any type of disc on the market. Aside from the usual CD/DVD assortments, M-Discs (which are special DVD+Rs designed to last 1000 years), it'll burn Bly-ray discs and re-writeable ones - including the massive 128 GB re-writeable BDXL discs (which are about $99 a disc right now!). The only thing it can't do is LightScribe, which is a bit of a shame but it might simply be incompatible with the different laser used for burning the M-Discs.
The only reason not to get this drive would be if you're really going to need M-Disc Blu-rays in the future (and are too cheap to buy another drive later). Currently M-Discs are only DVD+R sized and the company is working on 25 GB models. When will they be out? Who knows. But almost certainly you will need a new drive to burn them.
Mac OS 10.8 detects the drive and burns to it using the Finder, Disk Utility and Toast. No additional software needed to read/write Blu-ray discs (although Toast does work nicely with it for some $$$).
Drive information as reported by Mac OS:
HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40:
Firmware Revision: 1.00
Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)
Cache: 4064 KB
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
BD-Write: -R, -RE
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
UPDATE: One thing I forgot to mention is this drive doesn't support LightScribe or any other type of disc "printing". I think LG products have an LS in the model number if it is supported.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Drive - Beware of Firmware Level
By Jon Kreisler
This is a great Blu-Ray writer. Good value too. However, beware of the firmware level. If the drive you receive, as mine was, has firmware level 1.00, you WILL need a firmware upgrade. As of this writing, the latest version is 1.01 (April 2013). With the older firmware, the drive cannot write any DL, TL or QL media. The firmware update is available as a download from the LG support site. However, it is only available as a Windows executable. Mac users will need to be running Windows under BootCamp. (It will not work under Parallels or VMWare Fusion. The executable may start, but it will never complete the flash process.) If you can't upgrade the firmware yourself, you can exchange the drive with LG under the terms of their warranty. However, LG may send you a refurbished drive to replace your new one. Also note, Mac does not natively support writing (burning) to Blu-Ray drives, or playing movies; only for reading data discs. You will need third-party software. Toast Titanium with the Blu-Ray plugin does a great job of burning BD-R and BD-RE discs. There are a number of good programs for playing Blu-Ray movies on your Mac.
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