Verbatim 43890 External Slimline Mobile USB 3.2 Blu-ray Writer

Works straight from the box, inexpensive, well made, plugs into laptop u.s.b, with no problem.

This cd/dvd rom drive works perfectly on my windows 11 desktop pc. The dvd picture quality during playback is great. There’s no stutter or judder and the drive is very quiet. The cable length is fairly standard, so short. But for a not a lot of money you can pick a longer one of these up on Amazon. It connects via USB to Mini USB. the drive is also powered via the same cable. Comes with Nero burning and archiving software. I haven’t burnt a disk with it as yet so I can’t comment on the write speed. I will mainly be using this for playing CD’s and watching DVD’s, and so far it’s been perfect in that role. Recommended within my scope of use.

Honestly I would give this four and a half stars which would be more accurate. The player is genuinely very good and does what it says it does, but it does have some minor flaws:First of all, it’s very flimsy feeling, it looks great- but even with a case purchased for it I’m nervous about taking it around. the top of it the case is slightly warped which concerns me but does not impede functionality of the device, and that might just be my unit anyway. The Y cable is quite annoying as it takes up 2 USB slots but if you have a USB splitter it’s not too bad.Secondly, this device is very very loud, do not expect it to be quiet when writing even at low speeds, I did expect this though so it wasn’t really a factor when I was buying it. Maybe don’t use it in any libraries.It reads all my Blurays very very well and lets me make my own with relative ease. Be warned though you do need some technical knowledge and external software to get most new commercial Blurays to play- this is not the fault of the player.Box was really well packed and came with a helpful user guide disc.

Works well, easy setup with supplied software. Additional software (Nero) very limited but works well with VLC and standard Windows media player.

Worked straight away once installing nero software, good long cable ideal for desktop pc or monitor, ripped my cds very quickly,so far very pleased

Just a good solid little dvd drive and burner. Does exactly what it should.

Functions well but far from a robust case so okay for infrequent use which is what I purchased it for. Supporting Nero software a real bonus if needed otherwise maybe just more bloat on the PC. Happy with purchase overall but a bit pricey for what it is.

I had a terrible experience with this blu-ray drive and this is the first bad review that I have written.On first impressions the drive is a really nice and neat design, BUT the problems emidiatly flew thick and fast :( to start with the setup guide recomends just a single usb 3 port for data/power, the drive was unstable this method and could barely read the software CD it came with and through either straight into an available usb 3.0 blue port or through my 2amp powered usb 3.0 hub still not usable.So I tried the second method by plugging in the dual usb (power usb followed by data and to my horror the same result, clearly the drive couldn't get enough power......CRAZY as my old 2013 Samung BD burner runs off a SINGLE usb 2.0 port! this thing with 2usb 3.0 ports was getting nearly 4x the input power of the old Samsung and still it would barely load any discs.So Then I thought OK I'll try the 3amp power supply and bingo! it worked like a charm.... or so I though.... boy was I wrong. So the main thing I wanted to use this drive for was blu-ray conversion to MP4 so I could take my personal collection of Film/TV with me on my tablet ect and at first the drive seemed to be working fine and I evenn managed to convert a couple of 2hr plus films but THEN my nearly brand new Ryzen 5 Laptop crashed and my brand new 4TB External HDD started making horrid clicking noises!! natrually I paniced as my new computer which had cost me a LOT of my money seemed like it could have died on me, so I restarted my machine and all was well again...until a few mins later the same thing AAAAAAHHH :( and repeat several times, then I disconnected the Verbatim Blu-ray and hmmm the problem seems completely fixed, I reconnected my OLD slower Samsung Blu-ray and ripped several more films which took several hours without a hitch....hmm that's wierd I thought.Now I decided to carry out an experinment with this new drive, so with the mains adaptor I connected it to a spare usb hub with a mouse in it and to my surprise the hub and mouse connected to hub which was not connected to my pc turned on and the mouse flashed on and off surging with power leaking from the blu-ray drive back into the ports of the hub!! I am so glad I noticed this early enough so as not to perminantly damage my expensive new ASUS gaming laptop and 4TB WD Passport drive, I was lucky that my equipment is still OK and I am converting more films on older slower drive as we speak.So in conclusion I am truly sorry to have to post a bad review about this product but this fault is dangerous to your PC and must be known so it might not happen to anyone else.Update: My New 4TB HDD Has just died click,click,click..... Glad I managed to back it up before it died.