Customer Ratings & Reviews

Small but functional, easy use, great value for price.

Needed a drive for my laptop and this external drive fits the bill nice and portable.

I am very happy with this drive. I had purchased another brand and it was more of a backup drive, had two usb cords and wasn't user friendly really didn't like it. Read allot of reviews and the ones for the Dell were good and mentioned it only had one usb cord which I like. Works great did my jobs without any problems.

Purchased this Dell DVD Drive because my laptop doesn't have a DVD drive. I like the quality of Dell products. The Drive is small and easy to connect. Also, it has DVD burning software which I wanted to have also.

Gives you option of keeping your old CDs and DVDs saved. Or reproduced and played. Very light and easy to store product. Works fast.

Incredibly easy to use - just plug it in and it works (Windows 10 PC). It's nice and slim, CD ejects well. No problems. And it appears to be durable because it fell off a table recently while running with an audio CD, hit the floor, but continues working just fine.

I purchased this to use with my new laptop and it works great. The price was nice too. It was so easy to just plug in and use.

Works as required. Burns the CD onto my laptop with zero issues. Slick and looks nice, taking up basically zero space.

You can buy $1,000 computer and they still don't have the drive that you can burn CDs with. This is great portable and inexpensive.

Works very well. I was given one by my work a while back, dropped it, and the spring function stopped working. So, minus 1 star for durability. No issues outside of self-inflicted ones. I bought another, and it works well.

Was perfect for my needs, plug and play with no issues, all worked as described.

IT works well & happy with it for the money dell is a good buy

I bought the Dell 316 external optical drive because the internal drive stopped working. The drive itself works well . The CyberLink Media Suitev.12 would not load into my Inspiron M731R laptop running Windows 10. I use VLC Media Player and Nero Burn Express 3 and the 316 drive works flawlessly. Good mechanicals, out-of-date software...

Very usefull and has a,perfect quality for everyday

Plug-n-play with my 14-inch MacBook. Just what I was seeking and at an affordable price.

Was looking for a reasonably priced USB 2.0 DVD r/w . The Dell was on sale at the time, and seemed like a nicer drive than the other USB 2.0's Hooked it up and installed the Cyberlink Media Suite (included). Then opened a photo DVD to transfer the files, was pleased how well it worked.

Worked great. I have a Del all in one desktop, and this Dell drive was a simple plug and play where another brand I tried required downloading software to work.

For the price this little thing is awesome. I haven't tested burning anything, but have something around that I can use for old CDs and DVDs is great.

The drive is very sleek but the downside is that you hear a lot of noise when the disc is moved even slightly. I feared that the disc is hitting the drive box and it was not being held properly. In case you see moving a lot while the drive is attached to the laptop, you should not be opting for it. But in case you at stationed at one place while the drive is attached to desktop/laptop I find it as useful product

Nice compact DVD write and rewrite DVD’s. It’s a Dell DVD player.