Customer Ratings & Reviews

When my old external optical drive died, I looked online at Best Buy to make sure they had a decent selection and check reviews. I went to my local store and picked up this one, which plays CD's, DVD's and Blu-ray discs. Works like a charm.

It is not stated on the box that the device requires two usb ports to function. Installed and had to do a bunch of updates before I could use it. After all that was done, it was easy to use.

Four years of use, and this player/writer is going strong just like it did fresh out of the box!

I use this with my HP Envy 2 in 1 laptop which doesn't have an optical drive. It is very easy to use by just plugging it into the USB port and inserting a disc. No problems and I got it for $71.99 with my rewards discount. Would buy again if I purchase another laptop

Wow, talk about identifying a Win10 issue too late! This external drive will play blu-ray movies on my laptop in Win7, but not after upgrading to Win10. Tried EVERYTHING! Tried all the available Win10 AMD 6620G drivers to no avail. Tried all the PowerDVD potential fixes to no avail. Spent hours and hours trying. The Win10 drivers work for my most demanding games, but not this blu-ray drive when trying to play blu-ray movies. Not sure of other functions. PowerDVD says my video card not sufficient, but same card works fine with the same PowerDVD software to play blu-ray movies in Win7. Plays blu-ray movies on my other very wimpy laptop with Win10 and its wimpy graphics card (it won't even come close to handling the same video as my HP DV6 Entertainment Laptop). Definitely an AMD / Win10 video driver issue. Thank goodness I kept my old hard drive with my Win7. Will be switching back to Win7. Maybe one day AMD & Win10 will work it out eventually, but not hopeful.

Exactly what I wanted and needed. Blu-Ray DVD player/writer

Works great once you figure out the cybertech software. It said my gtx 1080 ti with updated drivers was a outdated videocard, not compatable. I just got black screen when I tried to play a dvd or a bluray disc. Im using Windows 10. After 2 days of trying to make it work, I found a quick fix. You open up the cyberlink power 12 media center, into the play movie app, go to the video enhancement check box uncheck the box, then it will play both both dvds and bluray discs. It basically disables the videocard hardware acceleration and uses the cpu intergrated video acceleration. I have a intel i7 7700 cpu. Now it works, its plays all discs smoothly and clearly.

Sometimes it takes several times plugging/unplugging before it registers. But it works well. I am pleased

Performs even better than expected. Speeds are very good and battery drain is minimal.

Worked great..compact in size so I can take it with me when traveling

Purchased around 9 years ago at Best Buy. Still sees weekly use. Lasts forever; only issue I had was that one of the internal screws came loose. Took 10 minutes to take apart and retighten. I don't hold it against the product; it's traveled thousands of miles in a backpack and a screw eventually coming loose is a risk with that sort of thing. The thing seems indestructible and has impressive quality.

i got it for christmas and it works great and easy to hookup

I’ve used this machine several times and it works pretty well so far. Note for Mac users: you will have to find software to make it work with your computer.

The blu-ray player works fantasticly. I've yet to try the other features so can't say how good those are just yet.

Compatible with Linux, but super loud. Luckily I only want it to backup my Blu-Ray and DVDs.

Was easy to setup, burned my HD movie correctly the first time. Quiet operation. Needing a second USB jack was not an issue as my desktop has 2 available ports on the front panel. Highly recommended!

It doesn't come with software that can play blu-rays.

very awesome blu ray player for your lap top..Easy to operate

Brought this since my laptop doesn't have a cd/DVD player burner. Read the reviews and decided to try this one. Really like! Easy to use.

Great bluray burner...used several. Lg made a great external drive.