Any suggestions for using an optical Drive?
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definitely not buy this one ever again. SAMSUNG gave me full refund after I shipped mine five times to their A/S warranty. The worst ever.
1618913
Any Optical drive will probably work (USB). I use a cheap $30 one.And Yes, The touchpad is so bad, it changes my rating of this laptop from A to D.
1618914
Sorry, no. I do have a question though, do you have any problems with the touchpad sticking?
1618915
I just use a usb-attached cheapy. Works great for me (which is rarely). The brand is LG. Portable Super Multi Drive. Had it quite a while, so it may likely be no longer available
410663
No. Theres NO optical drive. A bit disappointing. I picked up an external for 30 bucks that was also blu ray.
1112401
No, it does not have any optical drives. If you choose to use a CD ROM or DVD drive, you must connect it via USB.
2167887
The standard optical drive is a dvd/cd, it does not have blu ray support but you can install one that does. It will come with a battery and AC Adapter.
1188656
No - I recommend getting either an external DVD/CD reader, or an external hard drive such as a Western Digital passport that you can store larger files such as installation media, etc. and run those from the external drive.
413458
No, there is no disk drive (optical drive) on this computer. Most information can be transmitted online or through a USB devises these days but if you wish to use the laptop for watching DVDs or using programs that require disks then this is probably not the machine for you. There are also external disk drives that would plug into the computer's USB port but if that is something you would use frequently it would probably turn out to be a hassle and it an extra expense. I hope this helps
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You can get an external dvd drive that you can hook up -- they are pretty cheap these days. Ofcourse, you could use another machine that has a drive and put it on drop box.
1392057
There is no optical drive (DVD-ROM). This is a small hard drive, but the idea is you keep most of your stuff in the cloud.
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It won't be as fast as an ssd drive in the slot. You might look into moving your optical drive external and putting a drive in the optical bay.
2084772
Use the USB and a USB external hard drive. WD has one with 2TB I picked up during Black Friday sales.
1847766
It does not have an optical drive. I just bought a slim usb external blu ray drive. This one right here Samsung SE-506BB/TSBD 6X USB2.0 External Slim Blu-ray Writer Drive (Black)
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No. But you can use any USB optical drive by connecting it to the front header.
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I read somewhere that a Gear Head 20XDVDTFEXT triple-format DVD USB drive would do the trick. You might want to check this out before buying one (I am!) so you don't get caught in the "...he said that she said that..." trap.Good luck, and please report back with info you uncover.Update:Here's an external optical drive which SHOULD work, and one which I'm going to try:"ASUS SDRW 0804P-D - Disk drive - DVD?RW (+R DL) - 8x/8x - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394 (FireWire) - external".The quote marks are because this is from Amazon's description; it's available here on Amazon.Disclaimer: I have no first-hand knowledge that this combo will work. Someone please respond if you do. I read somewhere that a Gear Head 20XDVDTFEXT triple-format DVD USB drive would do the trick. You might want to check this out before buying one (I am!) so you don't get caught in the "...he said that she said that..." trap.Good luck, and please report back with info you uncover.Update:Here's an external optical drive which SHOULD work, and one which I'm going to try:"ASUS SDRW 0804P-D - Disk drive - DVD?RW (+R DL) - 8x/8x - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394 (FireWire) - external".The quote marks are because this is from Amazon's description;... » Read More I read somewhere that a Gear Head 20XDVDTFEXT triple-format DVD USB drive would do the trick. You might want to check this out before buying one (I am!) so you don't get caught in the "...he said that she said that..." trap.Good luck, and please report back with info you uncover.Update:Here's an external optical drive which SHOULD work, and one which I'm going to try:"ASUS SDRW 0804P-D - Disk drive - DVD?RW (+R DL) - 8x/8x - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394 (FireWire) - external".The quote marks are because this is from Amazon's description; it's available here on Amazon.Disclaimer: I have no first-hand knowledge that this combo will work. Someone please respond if you do. « Show Less
1110455
It doesn't have an optical drive. You would have to get an external optical drive and connect it via USB
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I used a laptop optical drive and it works great. The power resources for a desktop optical drive might be different because it usually has the extra moving parts of the tray that pushes open vs the laptop tray that pops open. I doubt that should make a difference though. If you know how to see what the power needs are for your desktop optical drive though, and it fits the amount given through usb, then it should work fine. My guess is that it would be ok. Since, if the power input is the same plug and pin layout, then it probably follows the same power requirements as well. Don't take my word on that though. But, it works great for my laptop optical drive.
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Yes. Should you so choose, you can have the optical drive replaced with an SSD and run your system from the SSD. So much faster!
83088
A optical drive is dvd or cd rom that you connect threw a usb or docking station. The tc4200 does not have dvd or cd drive on the unit. So you would need a optical drive.