HP External Portable Slim Design CD/DVD RW Write/Read Drive, USB, Black (F2B56AA)

I never had external CD drives, other than the CD walkmans themselves and the drives in laptops and desktops. Because of that I cannot comment if it is normal for a drive to be this noisy when spinning up the disk but it sounds like an RC airplane spooling up. It does calm down a little bit once the CD is up to speed, but the initial spool up is extremely loud. Other than that, works as intended, plug-and-play.

Liked every feature of this product. Used it to upload all our music cd’s to my new desktop computer which does have a disc drive.

Needed to load a tax CD onto laptop. This did the job.

I love the external dvd. It is perfect. No complaints.

Looks like the best burner I will get now. Reputable brand. No problems.

I just plugged it into an HP all-in-one computer and it worked perfectly. Loved it!

I bought this HP drive to use with a new HP laptop. Unfortunately, it did not want to work easily with it so I returned it. Unbelievably, I accidently left our new Turbo Tax CD in the drive when I returned it!!! I was sure I would never see it again. However, I contacted the seller Co-Brands. They took the time to find it AND ship it back to me FedEx! I cannot say enough good things about them! In a world where customer service almost seems extinct, these guys rock it!

I am accustomed to having a device listed in File Explorer by simply plugging it in the a USB port (i.e. jump drive). This is not the case with this HP DVDRW unit. You need to have a CD/DVD disk inserted when plugged in and it will then wake up. Personally, I like to know that a plug in is recognized and set to go whenever plugged in. Hence, a little change on my part...I just need to have a disk loaded and then look at File Explorer to insure it is connected and ready to read and or write. By the way, another separate issue is to pick a app that will allow you to use your DVDRW unit. Windows 10 does not come with an app. Would be great if HP could simply have a free app listed and wed access versus going third party route. Im using Any Player which is alright but makes it really feel like its a third party provider. I believe Windows has the Media Player app at $14.99.

plug and play

The DVD reader worked great!