Customer Ratings & Reviews

Very easy to use and reliable external usb optical drive.

Excellent price, excellent software and so easy to install and set up. Worth the price!

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.

Does what it's supposed to do, reads CDs. Worked great on my MAC M1.

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.

It worked great for a while (8 or 9 months) then it started slowing down. Maybe it was the media I was using. It would not read some of my CDs but some it read fine. It started going slower and just spinning, making a whistling noise. I don't use it much but when I do it usually works, just needs a little TLC

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.

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.

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

Perfect performance. Excellent product for the price.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Great addition to my apple air. I NEEDED THIS PRODUCT TO WATCH MANY CD THAT I have. A positive addition and I recommend to others.