Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great USB CD/DVD drive for use with Dell Laptops. It does not support blu-ray.

this works great for the price! using for CDs for church

Easy to set up... easy to use...In a time when cds and dvds have gone to the wayside, I’m glad to have something to download my music and pictures from cds and dvds. I love it.

Easy to setup, work perfect with my Dell laptop and Surface tablet.

Great addition to my laptop. Plays and writes dvds. What little I have used it is good. Easy to connect and figure out. Great price for this product. Instructions could be easier to understand.

Very nice! Compact and easily take on the go! Works great!

Great and perfect functional!! Easy installation and light weight

My computer did not have a DVD reader installed I wanted to add one that was reasonably priced since I would not be using it often. I spoke to a staff member and he suggested the Dell plug and play DW316. Bottom line: easy to install and use and gives me what I was looking for. Truly: Plug it into a USB port and drop in a disc. Starts up automatically. Thanks Best Buy!

easy to set up works great love wathing all my movies

Quiet, took a few moments to read the discs I threw at it.. overall worked as expected. No real complaints.

very easy to use and it works great very easy hook up

Perfect addition to your computer for viewing CDs/DVDs.

I know in this day and age no one uses optical drives anymore but I am a person who still uses CDs because it's another source of data back up because hard drives and ssd's can still fail when saving data so I decided to buy an external dvd burner to continue to copy data on to CDs. This drive works just like any other optical drive but keep in mind this external USB dvd burner uses 2.0 speeds so it's a tiny bit slower compare to a regular SATA optical drive but it works just fine as it does what I need to do. I should add here this drive doesn't need a power adapter as the USB 2.0 cord powers it on when you connect it to your laptop.

worked out fine--was easy to set up-it has a disk with it so you must load that in--works well and does the job required--price was good

I needed a Extrenal CD that is easy to hook up and use. The Dell DW316 was perfect. Very easy to set up and get going. So far works very well!

The Dell external drive is easy to use with my Dell XPS laptop. It is slim.

Perfect for when it's needed. Plug in and go! Compact and easy to use.

I had to get an external DVD drive because my new Dell laptop does not have an internal DVD drive. This one was on sale because I bought it the same time as the laptop. It works fine. It is very fast and lightweight.

Although most software is able to be downloaded, my printer came with a CD with the software and drivers. I connected it to mt 2 in 1 laptop and it loaded and installed the software quickly and correctly the first time!

Worked as needed. I was able to recover some old DVDs with this.