Was hoping to love this unit but although it came well packaged and on time I had troubles from the on set. I believe that I had a dvd reader and not a writer. It would read a cd/dvd but would not do anything else. If you put a blank dvd r+ it would do nothing. And the drive would disappear from the desktop. Then I got a clunky sound happening in the hhd. I exchanged this item as will review the replacement as I have my fingers crossed for this one.