all right my theme of boring unboxings today continues today I will be unboxing
a Samsung SATA DVD writer now this model
is the sh s223 but this is meant more as
an unboxing to be an illustration of exactly what constitutes an oem DVD
drive so as you can see in the product description here I'm just going to go
ahead and take it out of the box okay well the bag whatever you want to call
it it's basically just the model name DVD writer SATA black OEM be able to
read that if the O wasn't cut off by a barcode so what OEM means is this is
what you get you get a drive original equipment manufacturer you do not get
any mounting screws you do not get any SATA cables what you get is a functional
drive at an extremely good price because most OEM units are going to cost less
than half of what you'd pay for a retail drive and considering the fact that when
you're building a system your case is going to come with all of the screws you'd need to mount a bunch of optical
drives anyway they don't bother to provide that stuff your motherboard
comes with SATA cables and so on and so on you get the point so the only thing
that these drives tend to come with is a bag an elastic holding the bag shut
which mine doesn't even have and a quick installation guide so you can see they
show you unplug your computer from the wall slide in the drive plug in the
power and Off to the Races now something
that they sometimes come with is like a trial or demo or partial version of a
burning software this particular one does not but some of them do thank you
for checking out my unboxing of the sh- S2 223 and in pretty much all EMD Drive
DVD drives cuz they're all going to look the same 5 and 1/4 in Drive there's your
mounting holes I guess I haven't really done this in detail enough there's your
button to open it up and there at the back is where you will find the SATA
interface power and data