External DVD Rewriters

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    The DVD writer on my Tower is now chewing up discs instead of writing to them. The SSD is almost full so I need to empty out the Photos on to DVD's fairly quickly.
    I could take the machine in and have a new Writer fitted, but that would take a week and is rather more expensive. Not capable of doing it myself either.
    So question is, can I use a Samsung SE-218BB Rewriter with a Windows 7 PC? And is it any good? If not then what?
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      That would cost more than taking the computer in to have a new DVD writer fitted. And it does not address the problem of writing stuff to DVD's and CD's for portability. I already have 2 HDD backup systems (both pretty near full too!)
      Thanks all the same.
       
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      Should be fine. I bought a similar Samsung last month for a new lappie that didn't have a drive at all! long story...
       
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      Samsung drives are generally very good, and to be honest for the money being asked for them, you can't really lose. Consider this one for less than £20
       
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      I go along with the idea of DVDs, might be old fashioned but al least you can drop them and they still work.
      I put loads of photos on a Toshiba external hard drive, dropped it just on carpet, and now its a dead as a door nail.
       
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