USB 3.0 External CD DVD Drive,Oudekay Ultra Slim Touch Control CD DVD Burner Portable DVD Player for PC Laptop Desktop MacBook Windows XP/Win 7/Win 8/Win 10/Vista/Linux/Mac OS and More (Black)

It looks very nice, slim and stylish with it's cool blue light... but I want a DVD drive that has more to offer than good looks. So what does it have to offer besides being trés chic? Well in truth, the same as any other USB DVD drive. Put in a CD or DVD, run it, remove it when you're done... not much room for innovation perhaps, which means that the drive will stand or fall on in cons rather than its pros.So let me run through those cons:1st con - Looks good, but seems a touch flimsy, particularly the tray. It is not possible to place the disc firmly into the holder without using a degree of pressure that would break the tray, so one needs to support the underside of the tray whilst inserting discs. And without auto-close and eject, one must push the tray closed, and that also requires a degree of firmness that will move the whole drive across the surface it is upon rather than the tray, so again, one has to hold the rear of the drive in place to close the tray. It's not a huge deal mind you; most external drives share these particular issues.2nd con - the 2 supplied USB connecting leads (one for data, one for power) are absurdly short thus greatly limiting placement of the drive.3rd con - let's be honest, we all have one or two dodgy discs that are a bit scuffed up and should be trashed but which we can't bear to part with... and it's always 50/50 whether the drive will be able to read it. This drive will commit suicide in such a situation and stop working; Windows will not recognise it and it will not be in the Drive list until your computer is rebooted. This is no trivial matter.So in summary, it's a nice-looking, compact functional drive with little other than appearance to distinguish it from any other USB optical drive, a little lightweight but will do the job adequately if one doesn't ask it to access any physically compromised discs. It works, the issue is not sufficiently problematic for me to return the unit, but I would not choose to buy one again.

Product works as intended, however the touch button is slightly redundant, as it only pops the tray out about a cm, then you have to manually pull it out yourself. For some reason I expected the tray to be motorised (like on old desktops), thus making opening the tray easier if installed in a tight space.Likewise, the product is lightweight, but this means that the entire thing skids when you push the tray back in - although I think this will be the case with most of these external drives.Instructions (like the Amazon description) are in shoddily translated English, but the overall quality is acceptable.EDIT: Docked a star because for some reason, despite being plugged into a USB3 port, the thing rips and imports CDs super slow; like 20 mins per CD slow.EDIT2: CD drawer pops out erratically mid-burn, and has done for years. Will need to replace. Certainly won't be buying this model again!

It worked straight out of the box, plug and play. There are two cables. One is the data connection and the second is a power cable that is only necessary if your computer cannot supply enough power via that data cable. Mine was fine just using the one cable. I am only using this for CDs and DVDs. No rewriting etc. It is not clear looking at the device or the paperwork, but if you look at the pictures on the listing for this item, you can eject the disc by touching the drive casing by the blue power light. It is working on Windows 10. Not sure of the quality and will report back if it dies unreasonably early. Otherwise happy enough - it was all straight forward.

I ordered this as I needed another USB CD drive for performing ad-hoc firmware updates to servers. The issue with some external drives is that they struggle with power as a USB port is normally limited to 500mA. This one works flawlessly with a single USB connection to the device, however it also comes with an additional power plug to USB cable just in case the device cannot provide enough power to the drive, although I've not needed this yet.Data transfer speed is great - anything that supports USB3 will show a significant improvement in data transfer speeds and the drive spins the disc up quickly and quietly.The unit feels well made and is quite light too. The actual cd tray pops out of the case in the same manner as a laptop CD drive and there is an electronic eject button towards the read of the case on top to do this.The only thing to be mindful of is that the USB connector on the drive is not a standard connector, therefore be sure not to misplace the cable.

So far so good! The unit is compact and works very well, but I am concerned about its durability; as it feels very flimsy and when I insert a disc onto the table, I have to make sure I am supporting it. Nonetheless it is good value for money!

Great quality external DVD drive, easy plug and play setup and runs fairly quietly. The housing has a sturdy, good quality feel about it and the access speed is as quick as an internal drive. Bought as I have a number of laptops now without a DVD drive and it's nice to have the option. Supplied with two leads, one USB 3.0 which powered the device fully, however if you have an older laptop or device there's a secondary USB cable that provides additional power to the unit. If you're looking for a very reasonably priced, good quality, external DVD drive then you really can't go wrong, can't recommend highly enough,

I do a lot of craft work, and still a lot of books etc have included CD/DVDs although the laptops dont have a slot anymore! Decided that rather than waiting till my husband got the old one up and running, it would make sense just to have this for the future. Worked really well straight away, just needed to download a driver for which good instructions were included. Very handy to have around the place. Also means I can now watch some of my old DVD’s as we dont have a player anymore, just watch on demand. Its not the sturdiest of external drives, but for the price is excellent value.