What external disc drive do people recommend for this computer?
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The computer has a built in disc drive, reading and burning cds playing DVD etc...unless your looking for something else.
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Have a hard drive disk and a multi card disk drive. Don't have a cd/dvd disk drive. Need to buy an external usb unit. I buy a original hp for 45$.
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I don't know about a DVD drive, but I have attached my external hard drive with no fuss at all. It treats it like a memory card. I would worry about a DVD drive, though, needing an extra driver or two.
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They sell external CD/DVD Drives ... not very expensive . We bought one ourselves. SANOXY Slim Portable USB 2.0 External CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
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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.
1006928
I am using MyPCBackup which works fine and I have also used a Toshiba external drive for backup. The backup up and down loads very easily.
2004901
There is no optical drive in this laptop. You can get a cheap USB DVD/CD combo drive for somewhere around $30. Make sure that you take that into consideration when comparing prices, if having an optical drive is important to you. You can try this option from Samsung, but there are definitely other options out there: Samsung USB 2.0 Ultra Portable External DVD Writer Model SE-218CB/RSBS
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recommends at least 400. I have a 500 but I'm running several drives. 300 might be OK if u only have one HD and a CD drive
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I had to buy an external hard drive with a CD/DVD, storage, and burn ability. I use the latest Word, Power point, and data program; they work very well and fast. I am very satisfied.
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Most likely you will not have a problem with it. External drives from reputable companies pretty much all are compatible. It's a great drive and I'm running it on a mac mini so you should be fine on a windows.
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There is no internal optical drive. If you want to play discs on this laptop you need to get an external dvd player.
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I would recommend using one on Thecus's compatibility list: http://www.thecus.com/download/compatibility/hdd/N4520SERIES_N2800_N4800_N4800Eco_N5550_N4510U_N7510_HDD_SSD_list.pdfAlso consider that Enterprise rated drives will last longer and potentially perform a bit faster, but might not be worth the price bump for just backups.
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I have 3 westerns in my pc i havent had a seagate in awhile. I have a seagate external drive and its ran fan for like 7 years. So i would look up some reviews of both and see which one is best.
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The External USB DVD+RW, RW Super Drive is. 100% comparable with all apple pc's.
830547
No disc drive but you should be able to use something via USB. Word processing should be fine. Did have issues with Windows 8 in this but have used it on others without issue.
1327928
From past experiences with WD I stopped using them several years ago. Seagate or Hitachi would be a better choice in my opinion.
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I used a Western Digital Scorpio drive, but any laptop drive (2.5" size) should work.