Sony BD-5730S 6x BD 12.7mm Tray SATA Blu-ray Writer Review

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(More customer reviews)After doing some research, I decide to take the plunge and buy a blu ray burner. I have a Toshiba notebook that is fast enough to play blue ray, but wasn't sure if this drive will work. In the end ...this drive worked quite nicely. The order came packaged with the drive only. It lacked software and drivers. I removed the old cd-rom drive (it only takes one screw on the bottom of the notebook) to remove my old cd-rom drive. I had to take the fastener of the old drive and place it in the new drive. It fit perfectly in the slot and the sata connection. I also carefully snapped off the face plate of the Sony drive and replaced it with the Toshiba face plate which gave the drive a flush finish on the notebook. It fit perfectly. I guess all slim type drives are standard. Once installed, the bios recognized the blu ray burner as did Window's 7 64bit home edition. The drivers were installed automatically. If you didn't know already, Window's 7 has the drivers for blu ray players, but won't natively play blu ray (through Media Player) disk because Microsoft lacks the license from Sony to play a blu ray disk. In order to play or burn blu ray, you need a third party program such as Cyberlink power Dvd (blu ray playing software) or Adobe Premiere Elements 8 (blu ray disk movie making software). This drive isn't a speed demon, but it is faster than most stand alone blu ray players.
In summary, before you buy this drive, make sure you have the processor, memory, and driver requirements to play blu ray disk before you try this drive. [...] has a free utility download (Under support) that can tell you if the blu ray drive will work on your system or not. Also depending on your system, you may need brackets or mounts to install the drive.

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