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5.0 out of 5 stars External Blu Ray Drive
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1.0 out of 5 stars works occasionally, often dismounting CDs repeatedly and causes system crashes.
Updated 2-12-25I’ve tried a number of CDs that work fine on other drives and they all fail, the drive mounts and dismounts, crashes music player apps and will not stay mounted. I’ve replaced the wires and tried other ports and connecting to other computers. The drive is simply bad. Since I took the time to try and make it work, I’m now out of the return window and I’m stuck with it.Don’t buy this drive!I bought this so I could burn Blu-Ray disks for larger archive backups. The extra ports were nice but I could not get anything to work when plugged into them.Worse, all my older media like DVDs won't play on it even though my 10-year-old drive mounts and plays them fine. I also tried to play an MP3-CD which would not mount but does on my old drive. Regular CDs and Blu-ray disks mounted fine.I normally don't test speeds and just rely on my my impressions of performance. However, these other issues above made me do two tests. I put in three CDs to copy the music to my hard drive from two albums and timed how long it took to copy the music. I did the same copy from my old DVD-RW drive and it was the same speed. That would be okay only they advertised it as being many times faster than older drives. It was no faster at all.If you just need an external drive to play movies it's fine but for anything more, I'd recommend trying another model and brand.
4.0 out of 5 stars Gets the job done
I use this to download my DVDs so I can stream them on my computer. It doesn’t always work perfectly and sometimes takes a bit of guesswork, but overall I’m happy with it. Gets the job done.
5.0 out of 5 stars Recognized when connected immediately
Works very well with laptop. No special drivers were required for Windows 11.
2.0 out of 5 stars Included cable is defective
Out of the box this would be a one star/return defective piece of garbage, drive would frequently just make clocking sounds like or didn't have enough power, not reading disks at all etc Luckily I read some reviews about faulty cables and decided to spend the extra $10 to see if it would help. After replacing the garbage cable all of a sudden this drive is performing like it should've cost quite a bit more then it did. No failed reads, everything working very smoothly. For the price of they would've included a better cable and raised the price by ten bucks I would give this four stars at least
3.0 out of 5 stars Inexpensive and eventually sort of worked. Buyer Beware!
Why do I give it 3 stars? Eventually I got it to do what I needed it to do... be able to recognize that a BluRay data disc had been put in it and get the data copied off... and it's cheap.Why ONLY 3 stars? Because it never would recognize the disc when I attached it to my main computer - even after 20+ attempts and all sorts of troubleshooting. And it failed to recognize the disc several times as well when connected to my laptop. I would have given up - but the first time I connected it to my laptop, it DID recognize the disc before I screwed up and disconnected it. Then it failed to see the disc about 5 times when I was trying to get it to work again... before it finally connected properly. I got the data off.Because it eventually got the data off... That is +1 from a junk-rating. Because it was a cheap price, that's a 2nd +1... So 3 stars. Honestly, it doesn't deserve that. It probably deserves 2 stars. Whatever. Buyer beware.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good product. Recommended.
Good product. Does not work with all blu ray players, but found a free blu ray player on microsoft that works just fine. Overall, good player for the price. Plug and play.
1.0 out of 5 stars Only played DVD movie once and never again. Blu-ray still works.
It seems to work fine (for now) for watching Blu-ray movies. However, we were only able to get DVD movies to work once. After that it will no longer load any DVDs, just Blu-rays.
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5 in 1 External Blu Ray Drive, Portable Blu Ray Player with USB 3.0 Type-C, CD DVD Burner 3D Blu Ray with SD/TF Port, Blu Ray Drive Compatible with Windows Laptop Desktop (Updated Version)
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Order today to get by 7-14 business days
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Imported From: United States
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5.0 out of 5 stars External Blu Ray Drive
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1.0 out of 5 stars works occasionally, often dismounting CDs repeatedly and causes system crashes.
Updated 2-12-25I’ve tried a number of CDs that work fine on other drives and they all fail, the drive mounts and dismounts, crashes music player apps and will not stay mounted. I’ve replaced the wires and tried other ports and connecting to other computers. The drive is simply bad. Since I took the time to try and make it work, I’m now out of the return window and I’m stuck with it.Don’t buy this drive!I bought this so I could burn Blu-Ray disks for larger archive backups. The extra ports were nice but I could not get anything to work when plugged into them.Worse, all my older media like DVDs won't play on it even though my 10-year-old drive mounts and plays them fine. I also tried to play an MP3-CD which would not mount but does on my old drive. Regular CDs and Blu-ray disks mounted fine.I normally don't test speeds and just rely on my my impressions of performance. However, these other issues above made me do two tests. I put in three CDs to copy the music to my hard drive from two albums and timed how long it took to copy the music. I did the same copy from my old DVD-RW drive and it was the same speed. That would be okay only they advertised it as being many times faster than older drives. It was no faster at all.If you just need an external drive to play movies it's fine but for anything more, I'd recommend trying another model and brand.
4.0 out of 5 stars Gets the job done
I use this to download my DVDs so I can stream them on my computer. It doesn’t always work perfectly and sometimes takes a bit of guesswork, but overall I’m happy with it. Gets the job done.
5.0 out of 5 stars Recognized when connected immediately
Works very well with laptop. No special drivers were required for Windows 11.
2.0 out of 5 stars Included cable is defective
Out of the box this would be a one star/return defective piece of garbage, drive would frequently just make clocking sounds like or didn't have enough power, not reading disks at all etc Luckily I read some reviews about faulty cables and decided to spend the extra $10 to see if it would help. After replacing the garbage cable all of a sudden this drive is performing like it should've cost quite a bit more then it did. No failed reads, everything working very smoothly. For the price of they would've included a better cable and raised the price by ten bucks I would give this four stars at least
3.0 out of 5 stars Inexpensive and eventually sort of worked. Buyer Beware!
Why do I give it 3 stars? Eventually I got it to do what I needed it to do... be able to recognize that a BluRay data disc had been put in it and get the data copied off... and it's cheap.Why ONLY 3 stars? Because it never would recognize the disc when I attached it to my main computer - even after 20+ attempts and all sorts of troubleshooting. And it failed to recognize the disc several times as well when connected to my laptop. I would have given up - but the first time I connected it to my laptop, it DID recognize the disc before I screwed up and disconnected it. Then it failed to see the disc about 5 times when I was trying to get it to work again... before it finally connected properly. I got the data off.Because it eventually got the data off... That is +1 from a junk-rating. Because it was a cheap price, that's a 2nd +1... So 3 stars. Honestly, it doesn't deserve that. It probably deserves 2 stars. Whatever. Buyer beware.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good product. Recommended.
Good product. Does not work with all blu ray players, but found a free blu ray player on microsoft that works just fine. Overall, good player for the price. Plug and play.
1.0 out of 5 stars Only played DVD movie once and never again. Blu-ray still works.
It seems to work fine (for now) for watching Blu-ray movies. However, we were only able to get DVD movies to work once. After that it will no longer load any DVDs, just Blu-rays.
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