Dell USB Slim DVD +/- RW Drive DW316 - Plug and Play, 8 Watt Power Consumption, Windows 11 or below - Black

I am totally satisfied with this Dell DW316 External CD/DVD player/writer. It does what you want and expect it to do, when you want it to. Plug'n'Play worked very well.I just returned a highly rated player of another brand that was a total disaster, so much so I was blaming the blank cd's I had purchased. Then I got some replacement cd's and had similar issues, even with the player failing to eject cd's. I was getting failed burn and rip rates over 80% with both of those brands of CD's. Concluded that maybe the CD's weren't the problem.So I decided to try a NEW Dell DW316. I emphasize new, because I had just gotten rid of an old DW316 That I had worn out over the last 8 years. Around 1500 dvd's and cd's recorded over that time. I decided to try a new brand/model looking for improvement - what a fail that was. I should have just ordered the new DW316 in the first place.Back to the new DW316, today alone, I have already burned 7 cd's and ripped them all into my Music Database on my digital music player. All were done crisply, quickly without any glitches. Been doing spot checks of my older cd's and all have been playing well as I skip through the tracks verifying that the discs are working. No failed ejections. Both brands of discs have worked well with the new DW316.I should add that the Media Suite 12 included with the player is useless as I can't load it. I found numerous others have had this same issue, but it doesn't matter to me since I don't need it. They should save some money and discontinue these from the shipments.

I read a lot of reviews, and I went with this one, even though it was a little more expensive because the less expensive ones didn’t have the best reviews.This one arrived very carefully packaged with everything intact, lots of plastic around the actual unit, so it wouldn’t get scratched. It came with a disc that I wasn’t really sure what the disc was for, initially I thought it was to load software, but my firewall wouldn’t allow it and, as this is a new computer for me, I wasn’t sure how to turn that off. However, I slipped a music CD disc into it to try and it worked perfectly fine. Maybe the disc is for rewriting CDs or making copies or something.So as a senior who is not very techno savvy, this was very easy to just plug in and start using, no issues. The Quickstart guide was very helpful. The other information that was in the packet was incredibly difficult to read. It had to do with warranties, I believe. I could not make out the small print.It’s a very compact unit and easy to use because it connects with a USB. I did not have a DVD to try so I may update my review. Price point was a little high compared to the other ones but I wanted a real Dell product and like I said the reviews for it were very good so I would recommend it.

I've only had it for a few hours, but I've been able to rip about 30 CDs so far, which is most of my collection. I didn't even need the software disc it came with, just plugged the cord into the external CD drive, plugged the USB into the USB port my laptop, and popped in my own CDs. It started right up with Windows Media Player. I configured a few settings in WMP (rip automatically and eject after ripping) and soon had a good little system going. Very easy.I'd say the only downsides so far is that after about 10 CD discs, it makes a really loud whirring noise, so for ripping CDs you should definitely plan to give this thing a break after awhile. It also takes about 3-5 minutes per CD to rip. I'm not sure if that's a long time or not, but it was fine with me.This external drive seems like it would be very portable for watching DVDs on the go, but I didn't really buy it for that, so I don't know if I'll ever test that theory. It does play DVDs, though. I'll see how it does for burning CDs later, since I have a few albums I need to burn to new CDs.Again, it's been less than 24 hours since the package with this drive got here. But I've been very impressed with it so far. 30 CD rips, rather seamlessly. Much better than the random no-name brand I had a couple years ago. I'll update this if anything changes.

Works very well. I use it with a HP computer, just plug it in and the computer recognizes it right away. Loaded my Software disc, installed the software and then ejected and unplugged the drive. About $10 less than buying it from Dell and about $70 less than what HP wanted for their model. It comes with some sort of media software, which I did not install. You don't really need it.

Integrated well with my Dell All In One desktop computer running the Windows 11 operating system.Now I can play my discs and load my Hoyle card game on my computer. Perfect.

Excellent drive. Please note that this unit will not play Blu-ray DVDs.

Haven’t had a problem with it. I put some 3m tape under my shelf so it actually functions better than the ones that open from the side of the laptop. For regular dvd’s never mind downloading the provided software just use VLC.

My old one had driver issues and no fix in sight. This was easy to set up, use the included CD for all drivers and programs you need. I have only used it for viewing CDs but that is all I need