WHI6NS60 IS NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION SO Flashing this drive to the SAME firmware version provides all of the benefits of the original model as follows:

First off it ups the write speed from 14x to 16x.

Second, the flashed firmware is a UHD Official firmware, which allows the drive to decrypt and read 4K Blu-Ray discs, including 3D Blu-Ray and BDXL/BDXL-R discs.

Third, THERE IS NO NO SLEEP BUG! If you've ever put a UHD disc in your UHD Friendly drive, you've inevitably run into the sleep bug. This is when you have a UHD disc in the drive that is left idle for ~2 minutes, after this the disc becomes unreadable until the drive is opened and shut again, while simultaneously making the drive seek constantly and makes horrible noises. This is all fixed with the WH16NS60 v1.00 Firmware

Having a UHD Friendly drive means you can use software like MakeMKV, DVDFab, KMPlayer, to digitize your personal collection for storage onto hard drive or NAS Etc.

These drives are opened up once, in order to flash them, used to rip one disc to test and make sure they function as needed. They are then placed back into the original packaging.

YOU WILL RECIEVE A BRAND NEW FULLY TESTED DRIVE CAPABLE OF READING 3 LAYER 4K DISCS. IT IS COMPATIBLE WITH MAKE MKV AND DVD FAB. YOU WILL RECEIVE PRINTOUT WITH YOUR SERIAL NUMBER BEING TESTED AND PROVEN 100% OPERATIONAL.