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Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars with 14800 reviews

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    Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars

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    Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars

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    Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars

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94%would recommend to a friend

Customers are saying

Customers love the product's exceptional ease of use, strong overall performance, and attractive price point. They also appreciate its compact size, lightweight design, impressive speed, and quiet operation, along with its convenient USB-only power and broad compatibility. The only notable concern raised by customers is the requirement for separate software when using it with a Mac.

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  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good Deal

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Item works great. Very easy plug and play. And I was pleased that the store had it in stock since it was a need-it-today situation.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Yup

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    For the price you can’t beat it, unless you can find it cheaper, which is very hard to do. Trust me. Highly recommended.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    LG 8 speed External USB Optical Drive

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    Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    We bought this to use with a MacBook as an external optical drive and it works perfectly for playing DVDs and CDs. Also useful for installing apps/programs that are on optical disks. Thank you!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Usb

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great product

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    My drive on my laptop died when I updated my OS to windows 10. I needed an external DVD/RW to pull up old files saved to disk and convert over to thumb drives. Worked like a charm.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Usb

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Good External DVD Player

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Plays DVDs. At least, it played the one I tested without problem. Pretty basic, but that's okay. I needed this because I have some DVDs I need to play for classes and the new MacBook Air I bought does not have a DVD player.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Size

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Ease

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Simple to operate. Small footprint easy to fit in briefcase

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    It works

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works well for those rare times you need.... or think you need an optical reader and writer... which is becoming rare. Good speed and pretty much plug and play but if you hook it to a windows 10 machine you still need software to play DVDs.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Needed this to Complete my computer

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    My recent laptop came without a DVD so this was great buy to make my laptop complete. ALthough I know that everything is switching to flash drives, there is always that one item on DVD and not having one is such a bummer, but this helps solve that

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    External DVD writer

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Convenient, easy to use. Got this as newer laptop does not have optical drive anymore.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    OPTICAL DRIVE

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    EXCELLENT. EASY SETUP, DOES THE JOB, AND THE PRICE WAS RIGHT ON SALE.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Value

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Paid a great price on sale combined with a reward certificate. Burned a few cds and couldn’t be more satisfied. Wish it wasn’t the old school Micro USB but hey you can’t have it all for this price.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    great buy for the money

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    it is easy to use and give a great movie without having to have an reader installed

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Perfect for me!

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works as it should no issues! Very easy to use and no extra power supply is needed.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Overall performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Optical drive review

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    It does it's job great, no complaints. I go by the idea of if I hookup a device and there are no issues that I can find I can give a full recommendation and this disc drive does so

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Necessary Item for us Older PC Users

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This item is necessary for those of us who have lots of DVD's in our libraries and still enjoying watching them on our PC's.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Overall performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    As expected.

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works as it should. Very good product. Would recommend this.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Overall performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Love my portable drive.

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    Posted . Owned for 8 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I am very happy I bought this dvd/cd external drive. Works great and I love it.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Cons mentioned:
    Software

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Decent external DVD

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    Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Decent option for use with laptop that didn't come with an optical drive. Couldn't install the included software suite (file path error), but installed the other included software with no problems.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Works perfectly

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    DVD drives are not common in laptops anymore. Unfortunately there are still some software that can't be downloaded. this drive does what it is made for and at a great price. I don't need it often, but when I do it works.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    External cd dvd drive

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I recently bought a laptop. Since it didn’t have a cd dvd drive, I asked for one. My daughter set it up and then we downloaded a music cd. Was easy to use. Now I can download my CDs to ITunes.

    I would recommend this to a friend