Customer Ratings & Reviews

This drive is cheap enough to justify purchasing with any modern laptop, even if your use cases may be small. It's capable of doing just about anything you may ever need to do in terms of optical media, and will probably last for many years of moderate use.

The ASUS ZenDrive 8x Max External DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive works exactly as you would think. Even without the included software the device works just fine. The USB A and C connection options make this drive easily compatible with a variety of computers. The build quality is also good and mostly rigid. So far, it meets expectations but doesn't exceed them.

Very nice Pc Love it. People were very friendly and Professional.

Worked fine for loading my tax software and for copying (burning) some music disks (yeah...I'm a dinosaur!!!). Was highly rated online and I hit a sale, so happy with the purchase. It is way smaller than I expected, and did come with cables. Now I need to find a bag/case to keep everything together.

Easy to connect and operate. Works well in Mac environment, great product.

Fast and quiet. It can be used to play films, music or install software

I bought this after reading the box, because it said it was usb-c...there is No usb-c receiver plug available on the unit, Anywhere. There was a usb 2.0 cable and a usb-c cable in the box. I bought it due to the ASUS name...what a let down. Box descriptors have been a let down since 30 years ago. Whomever was the designer for the box cover needs a lesson on how to properly advertise the contents.

A great external CD/DVD drive to add to any computer or laptop that lacks one.

WONDERFUL DVD/CD RECORDER/ PLAYER. WORKS AND CONNECTS MUCH EASIER THAN MY OTHER ONE EXCELLENT!!!

Works as advertised, no problem with it. Would recommend it to everyone.

Perfect performance. Excellent product for the price.

Works as it should on Linux. Feels solidly built and has a nice compact size. Haven't tried writing yet though. Of course (without unusual software) one can copy off data into files, archives, filesystems and iso images (the latter with standard optical disk making and copying software.) Then, access the iso image with the -o loop option when mounting it.

Great Size and Great Speed. Gets the job done. Plug and play

The ASUS ZenDrive is a nice little DVD reader. Recently the DVD reader in my laptop died. Since new laptops today generally are not equipped with DVD readers and because I occasionally need to read DVDs, I opted to get an external DVD reader to use with my rickety old laptop. After researching DVD readers, I settled on the ZenDrive. So far it has flawlessly read every DVD I could throw at it. As a bonus, the setup is trivial and its everyday use does not require outlandish computer skills.

Its a good burner and works with Windows 11. The only issue is that you have to buy software to create backups of your hard drive and the software doesn't work with Win 11, so don't bother buying the software. Its portable so I like the fact I can use it with my laptop.

Excellent product so far. I have it about a month to replace the integrated one that fails to see a disk. It worked great to reinstall some software from a CD disk that I had. Does what it's supposed to with very little effort as easy as plug and play.

Nice portable cd drive works with windows and a MAC makes it nice to have handy

Works well, slim and easy to hook up. Would recommend it.

I mean I bought to install my photoshop onto my Mac laptop but since my Mac isn’t like my hp laptop (which is old) it doesn’t have the space capacity for the installation. I basically bought it for nothing but it works pretty good

Absolutely essential, since they stopped including a writeable Drive on your lap top!!! This one works well and is a great value for the price. Small enough to take with you when you travel!! I took it to Europe and it worked fine with the Danish voltage.