Transcend TS8XDVDS WExternal DVD writer, 490, White

it works. no issues. only thing it's micro usb instead of C type... but that's ok

perfect product, work as expected

Quality Product with very reasonable price.

Plug and play to use. Working nicely with all PCs. No issues found. The size is almost a disk size. Love it.

Good quality

Excellent and Good Product Better to compare more than HP, Lenovo brand.

Good item working fine!

Good product and works well

This Transcend CD drive is 'plug and play', so any drivers needed are installed automatically. The CD drive shows in the Computer window as another DVD RW drive icon, and behaves in exactly the same way as an internal CD drive. It is supplied with a USB 'Y' lead. The length of the flexible sections are 380mm for the main lead and 150mm for the supplementary lead. I used the drive with an Acer Aspire 5733 Windows 7 laptop, and with Verbatim 43147 CD-RW's. I only needed to have the USB main lead connected in order to be able to write, read and erase files. I used ImgBurn to burn a 436 MB ISO file to CD-RW. I erased files using both Windows and ImgBurn. I formatted a CD-RW in Windows for use 'Like a USB flash drive'. Everything works, so this drive receives a 5-star rating.

I got a new PC and knew there would be no disk drive to load all software I needed to and wanted something cheap but would do the job.Pros:Cheap and does the jobSlim and easy to use (plug in and use no software needed)Cons:1) You need to plug into two USB ports for it to work2) Cables are not long enough as usual3) My PC was acting up and is in for repairs but trying to fix this, using this device was a problem, I am hoping it was the PC, (I had to do some installs a few times) otherwise this equipment is acting up after a little over a year of being used.4) You have to take a little care of taking disks out.Bought this in June 2015 for £21.59 and was £13.95 in September 2016

So far so good. I bought two of these to be used with Macbook Air. Now it needs two USB ports one for the data flow and the other for its power supply. While the MBAir does have two USB ports but the lead provided is not long enough to reach the other side…so I used the power provided by a USB Charger (tested this with Easy ACC as well as Anker 25Ws) and it worked perfectly well. This option does limit the portability. To make it truly portable with a MBAir one might have to use a thunderbolt to USB adapter and possibly make it work that way. But at this price (£19) it is very good value for money.I may provide an update in a couple of months as to how my experience with this has been.

I was slightly concerned whilst purchasing this due to the reviews. Must say that it worked straight out of the box without any issues. It also works directly when plugged into the projector using the USB cable. Wonder why anyone should pay for high cost of lenovo drives.

So far I am really happy with this CD/ DVD drive. I have had to load some legacy software and import some photo CDs to a new computer and this has proved itself well.I have not used it to burn a disk and it is likely I won't but it is good to know that I still can if need be.