Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this so I could play my (antique) collection of CDs, as the newer computers no longer incorporate a CD player. It was reasonably priced and works just fine. I've had no problems with it at all.

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!

Worked without any issues! It is light and can be easily moved around by a stiff cable. Perfect for on the go use with a Laptop

Small Thin and easy to use. Would recommend to family and friends

small and slim, barely bigger than a cassette case. easy to set-up and sounds fine.

Good value for the money. It is very simple to set up on my asus which doesn’t have a DVD drive. Bought to use with my turntable which I recently purchased. I need to download software to digitalize my vinyl collections

My laptop does not have a DVD/CD drive so I bought this so I could use quilting DVD’s in my sewing room. This is small and so easy to use. I could it be happier with my purchase.

Finally found a DW316 8x drive that works great for me. would recommend this to anyone that is looking for one.

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

This is a great little drive at a very good price. I bought this to use with a new HP Laptop. No need for manual configuring or additional software. Lightweight and portable.

I bought this drive to use in a couple of different applications, and it has worked well for me. I have played DVD and CDs with it, and it has never let me down. Small footprint and works every time.

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

So far it works great on my Mac. I am just using it right now to import all my Music CDs into iTunes and it's incredibly fast. My internal Mac drive was messing up bad, it rejected mounting my CDs and when it worked it took for ever to import the files. Glad I got this Dell DW316 external drive. I haven't tried any DVDs or any disc burning yet so I hope it's not going to give me any Mac compatible issues or tell me i need any additional software. This Dell external drive seems to be built a bit better than other units but you still need to be gentle the loading tray, other than that it's a good quality. I will follow up my review when do more testing.

I absolutely love my new tools for laptop tools for burning CDs again

Purchased a new computer with a solid state hard and no DVD drive, Needed a portable drive to load several legacy drives and data stored on CDs. This drive the job and price was excellent.

It does the job. Reads and writes fine. Even when sideways

I did not want to purchase the turbotax software download and my new laptop that does not have a cd drive. This dell usb slim dvd drive allowed me to easily install and use my turbotax software that I purchased on a cd. This portable cd drive purchase was awesome, it has allowed me to use my new laptop without a cd drive with other cds and I do not miss not having the drive on the laptop. Allowing the new technology to work with the old technology is great. Love this product.

I purchased this to work with my new laptop. It works great. I have used it several times since I purchased it this month. I keep it connected when I need it and remove it I’m not using it. I have not had any issues using it.

This drive works great and meets all mt expectations. With it being so slim, it fits in my computer bag nicely for travel.

Small, compact, light, easy to use! Was on sale got for 1/2 price!