ASUS BW-16D1X-U 16x External Blu-ray BDXL Drive with BD Suite Disc USB 3.0 Cable Power Adapter and Cord

This is called a Turbo drive. The only turbo about this drive is the noise it makes. I sounds as if it is a jet plane but in reality is trying to work which it doesnt accomplish. It barely recognizes a 50 Gig disk and has trouble handling them. Dont even think about a 100 Gig. that it is advertised to use. It constantly hangs up and has to be unplugged from power to reset. I am about to throw it in the trash. PS It has been over a year now since I purchased this drive so I cant return it. Sadly I dont use it too often and I let time slip away. But to the trash it goes.

Straight out of the box I just burn a 1hr 25 minutes event, great !!!

The drive is very fast and so far, is dependable. There is a power switch on the back that is very difficult to operate. Ive read reviews that the eject button (which is kind of hard to find) works intermittently. Im using the drive on a Mac and use software controlled eject. So for, no problems there either. Works well straight out of the box. It is not (in my opinion) portable, as its a full size drive and requires a power source.

It works like advertised. This is a basic external DVD drive. It is aesthetically appealing as well.

I use this with DVDFab software to back up Blu-Ray discs to a NAS. Easy to set up and use.

Need to improve the on/off switch. Takes too much effort to turn on and off.

This seems like a sound Blu-ray drive and I do like it. Software must be purchased in order to play Blu-ray discs on the PC. PowerDVD is an example of the software needed.

We bought this and we couldnt get it to work. It would play a cd, but it would not recognize the blue ray player. Even tried it on another computer to see if it might be just the one that we had at home, and it still wouldnt work. We found another brand from best buy and that worked with no problem.

Amazing to continue to see novice users that dont have a clue what they are doing. After over 50 years in the industry on just about every level, especially desktop support it never fails that people want to blame the hardware over their ignorance.

Received the Asus external Blu-ray drive on time, works as advertized, meets specs, built to last, good design. I highly recommed this drive. Rugged, well worth every penny. Put it to the test, and preforms very well.