Customer Ratings & Reviews

After upgrading my old laptop to a "new" ASUS laptop found I needed a disc drive to enable loading of my older CD/DVD software programs. I had thought about loading disc software onto thumb drives, but it turned out to be cheaper to buy the ASUS brand disc drive. It was very easy to install and operate the new ASUS disc drive. There are two sets of connection cables to perkup the power and speed of the disc drive. Just have decided through trial and error of which of the two cables works best for your project.

We needed a dvd drive and this one turned out perfect for us.

The ASUS external DVD Reader/Writer worked well. I needed to get old photos that were stored on DVDs quite a few years ago removed from the DVDs and stored on flash drives. I also had quite a few of the photos made into prints. The ASUS DVD Reader/Writer worked well and I am pleased to have purchased it.

Works just fine for what I use it for but what I found odd is the way they positioned the Asus logo on it, If you sit the drive on a desk with the cable out the back as per normal, the logo is sideways but if you stick it to the side of the pc case like I did, it's perfect. Also happens to be just the right amount of usb c length cable to reach around to the back of my pc.

This item looks great and works as expected. Highly recommended.

Love these speakers. I did have a little trouble getting them into stereo mode. Sound quality is excellent.

Works great just what I needed especially if you don’t have a built in cd DVD player

Bought this external drive for my asus gaming laptop. Works flawless no skips or drive not found. Comes with multiple plug in cords for laptop. Also comes with software on a cd for burning. Good external drive for the price. Recommend to all.

I am well please with my new external Asus dvd-rw drive works great, easy to get started, USB hook up, perfect for computers without cd/dvd rw drives!

I'm using the ZenDrive it to build a digital music library of my CDs. Works great with and without the included software disk. It takes a couple minutes on average to rip a CD. Spent a day going through 100+ CDs ripping most to 320kbps mp3 and the drive disconnected (unrecognized as a USB device) maybe 2-3 times, it does get warm after a few CDs back to back. Depending on the CD sometimes the CD won't rip while using the legacy Windows Media Player and you'll need to install the included software and rip using that. No issues with the drive itself. I travel frequently and ended up buying this due to my location at the time. I also have the ~$30 LG disk drive and they both perform very similarly.

I do not actually have this item. I bought it as a gift for someone in another state. I have no actual experience of using it. So why this one instead of some other? Several reasons. 1) It had a known brand name. I've read that some off-brand optical drives are actually pulls from defunct laptops, and not brand-new items. I didn't want that. 2) I liked that it came with two different size cables for connecting the drive to a computer. I figured this increased the chances of being able to connect it to whatever machine the ultimate recipient had. 3) I could see from the photos that there was no "spindle" in the caddy that a disc had to be forced onto. Just lay it in the tray and all is fine. This gave me confidence that it would be difficult to damage either the disc or the drive when loading a disc. 4) It was easy to have the recipient pick up the drive at a local store. This saved me from picking up the drive locally and from the cost and risk of damage if I had to ship it myself.

Perfect price and functionality. Does what it's supposed to do, without a hiccup. Plug and play, no issues. Reads all types of discs, good for converting old DVDs or CDs to digital format. Especially since PCs these days don't come with a disc drive anymore.

So far so good. I had the hardest time finding something that would be compatible with my new iMac with the M1 chip. This worked! I had to put a CD in before it would detect it but I am happy to say I was able to upload songs to my computer. Now I don't have to repurchase my old CD library.

Never owned one of these before but due to the fact that new PCs don’t have them I made the choice to buy this one because I still need it. I bought this particular one because it’s the same brand as my new PC, no other reason. It does what it should and that’s that

Yes, you can playback DVDs with this ASUS EXTERNAL CD/DVD writer. And while the tray is still empty, you can use the onscreen display to eject it, but when it’s actually loaded, that method doesn’t work, so it has to be manually ejected using a pin via the pinhole. Haven’t tried burning a disc with it yet, but it’s possible that it’s a similar maneuver. I’m only using this with my Mac mini having Apple silicon- so at least it works! You’d have to experiment with Mac versions of playback software for satisfactory results. So can ASUS update the firmware so that this is 100% operational with latest macOS? The unit comes with 2 cables; I’m using the USB-C.

An excellent disc drive. Very easy to use as it was ready to go once I plugged it in and it has done an excellent job burning Sega Dreamcast backups.

Working well for my needs. Couldn’t beat the price. If it lasts as long as my other asus products I will be happy and continue to purchase asus products.

I've read the other reviews but this worked right away on my 2024 MacBook Pro using just the single USB-C type connector. It booted up "mystery" unlabeled DVDs and CDs I've had in a drawer for the better part of two decades. It is a fragile little thing. You think you're going to bust it just by putting in a new disc. I don't know how much punishment it could take being lugged around in a backpack. But l don't plan on making it portable...keeping it around for the very rare use case that I need to read CD-ROM / DVD media or even burn a DVD. For less than $40, I don't have any complaints.

So glad to have found this at an affordable price. Now I can open up my older files, particularly photos, and save them so they can be easily accessible.

Nice small external drive. Runs smooth and is quite. Easy to install with just two connections. One to a computer and the other to an electrical outlet.