External Blu Ray Drive, USB 3.0 and Type-C Blu Ray Drive Portable Blu Ray DVD/CD/BD Player, 3D Optical Bluray Drive Compatible With Windows XP/7/8/10/11 Macos for Macbook Laptop Desktop

Bought this external Blu Ray drive for ripping BR discs for my home media server. Works brilliantly reading all my discs (including dvd of course) without problems. Lightweight, low running noise with plug and play means no configuration or setup needed. Cable length is a bit on the short side but a nice touch is that it comes as both USB A and USB-C connection.

The drive simply doesn't work. Tried on multiple PC's, and 9 times out of 10 wasn't even detected by the OS, and when it was detected it couldn't read any disc. Including retail Blurays, DVD's and DVD ROMS. All of which work absolutely fine in other devices. Even if you do get a working one, the build quality is very poor. it's made out of very cheap feeling plastic, and the USB cable is permanently attached to the drive is very short, so I still wouldn't recommend it even if it wasn't DOA.

We have a couple of new laptops here, neither with and inbuilt optical drive, and there are times when I need one. I also run a FriendlyElec NanoPc-T6 RK3588 Ubuntu based mini-server. Unless it's needed elsewhere, the drive is kept plugged into the mini-server, and it's performed admirably. However, my main Blu-ray player which is the best part of 15 years old has recently started getting a cranky on the mechanical side. So with the correct software loaded on the mini-server, I'm now using the drive on the mini-server to play Blu-ray discs too. For me in Ubuntu Linux, this works perfectly! Everything I've thrown at this drive, It's managed without a problem. If I had any criticism, it would be that the case tolerances are too tight - but nothing to drop this down from 5 stars!Little addendum: I've had an issue with the drive today - it wouldn't play a disc! Seems, everything I've used in it up to this point was region free, today I actually had to set it to region 2!

Very short lead from item to connect to PC? Item proved erratic when working as it would read both DVD and Blu-ray disks? Some discs that worked would later fail to be read, including new unsealed disks? As item wad dropped through letter box on delivery, it could have been damaged? Other than that, the erratic issue could Hissy be down to the very short connection lead as item was well wrapped.

Worked out of the box, no additional software needed. Happy with purchase.

I purchased this Blu Ray drive for my new mini pc as it doesn't have one fitted. Worked without any problem, it reads all of my old disks as well as burning my existing dvd disks.I purchased a different drive before this one that wouldn't recognise either of my computers so I returned it to Amazon who refunded me within a matter of hours.I recomend this drive for ease of installation, sturdiness and value for money.

Fantastic product

So, I've been holding off on reviewing this because I really wanted to give it a proper and fair go.To say I've struggled is an understatement.If you're considering this to watch BluRay DVDs on your PC equipment, just be aware that there is no native software that can handle BluRays in the Windows OS. Not only that, but you have to be careful what software packages you buy; many have burning software, whatever, but nothing that can actually play a disk!!I have an old Toshiba Qosimo with a BR player, but the Corel software that came with it says it is out of license, I went back to an old copy of Nero, 2016 I think; refused to start up and insisted I paid £30 to upgrade the the latest verion, which turned out not to have a player included!!!!So, I can only really rate this on what I can see. It played DVDs fine, even if it appeared to have power issues on certain ports. I guess running any disk player through USB is going to be touch and go for that.The lead storage under the unit is "nice", but this results in the lead being way too short to be practical. I attached it to my laptop, but being a sleek base it only has USB on the back, so you couldn't have the unit by the side and had to reach over the screen to put disks in and out of it. When I use my stack, it was a choice between using a front USB and balancing it on top or having it dangle by the cable, or putting it in a read USB and not being able to reach it at all!The DVD drive I had previously had a little draw-string baggy to keep it in, which was a nice touch. Not berating it for not having that, but if you're keeping this in a laptop bag, be aware it'll be floating around loose.In summation, if you have the software then it's not a bad drive by any means, maybe Macs have BluRay software in them?!? I wouldn't know, If not and you want to use it for more than viewing data, give it a long hard think, most consoles play BR nowadays and a standalone player isn't much more expensive than this, add in the cost of software and you may be looking at a more costly solution than you think.