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

This Blu Ray drive should have been rated 4 Stars. It is very well designed and built. It works well. I reduced the rating from 5 stars to 4 because the top surface is not flat. Therefore, most items can NOT be placed on the top. I further reduced the rating because the description is either misleading or a flagrant lie. This unit is incapable of playing Blu Ray DVDs on a Mac. I spent a frustrating hour on the phone with Asus Customer Support to no avail. The Asus website asks for the operating system being used with this drive, and the ONLY choices appearing on their pick list are Windows. I returned thus Asus drive to Amazon.

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.

Easy to use. Works very fast.

Perfect for my needs. I use it to play blu ray movies/tv shows and organize my music collection. Sturdy and easy to use. A little big to be truly portable, but that does not matter for my needs, used on my desktop PC.

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.

This drive is amazing, but there are things to know about it! What to expect is an extremely high quality Disc writer. It isn’t blazing fast on reads, and I haven’t tried burning a blu-ray, so I can’t comment there. However- this is important- IT DOES NOT COME WITH ON-BOARD BLU-RAY MEDIA SOFTWARE I didn’t realize this when I bought it, but it can not plug-and-play blu ray movies, you actually need to download software to be able to play movies. It works beautifully with the proper software (4K, HD audio, immersive). I gave this 5 stars because as a tool (and what it’s made for) it’s incredibly high quality and a painless installation. Also, it’s kinda big, check out the dimensions for sure. I like it, but it’s definitely not for everyone.

Inadequate documentation and technical support. Did not work out of the box. Returned. Perhaps I could have figured it out after spending many more hours - but even finding basic support information was enormously time-consuming and frustrating.

Though the description clearly says it works with Mac 10.6 or higher, it does not. ASUS support was no help, and in fact, quite frustrating. When my issue was “elevated” to the next support tier, all I got was a phone call 4 days later telling me to look at my email to follow those directions and if that didn’t work, to fill out the attached form. Come on ASUS — work *with* me to fix the problem. BTW, the emailed solution didn’t work and there was no way I was going to fill out a form to wait yet again to try again with them. Complete waste of time.

The drive works fine for reading discs and writing to 25gb Blu-Ray disc, however when I tried to write to a 100gb M-Disc, it seemed to work when I wrote a 60+ gigabytes to the disc, however when I later tried to access the disc it was corrupted and failed to open. Im debating on keeping the disc drive, however I wont waste my money on a $14.00 100gb M-Disc.

Though locating software for the Mac is a bit of a pain and pricy, its an amazing machine for the cost. Havent had any problems with it, very quiet, and fast. Downside is.... the blue LED light.... be nice if it could be turned off or at least dimmed... a little to bright especially at night.