Review on 📀 Lite-On 24x Ultra-Slim Portable USB 3.0 Blu-Ray UHD/DVD Writer Optical Drive EB1 - BDXL/BD/DVD/CD/UHD/M-Disc Support - Includes CyberLink Media Suite 10 Windows Software as Bonus by Joey Richardson

First of all, this product is just a case with Pioneer BDR-UD04 in it. The drive itself is a standard laptop drive and seems pretty solid - if you can get it cheap it might be a good deal just for the drive inside. However, if you want to use it (as intended) as an external drive, you may run into problems. In particular, the cable that comes with the drive doesn't really reach the connector inside. However, this is easy to fix. Remove the two rubber feet on the underside of the back panel, remove the screws underneath, then lift the back edge of the top cover and slide toward the back of the drive to remove. Once it's removed, you can simply lift the drive's silver border to remove it, then reattach the cover and rubber feet. It's a bit ugly, but at least the cable fits. In terms of performance, that's about what I expected. I've tested it with several media types to see what the writing quality is like - haven't written once yet as I've had time to test only rewritable discs: 32x MCC ("Verbatim") CD-RW: drive has 10x -16x-24x ZCLV, the recording quality was excellent in the 10x and 16x zones and "only" very good in the 24x zone. RICOHJPN-W21-001 ("Ritek") 8x DVD+RW: The drive performed 3.3x-6x-8x ZCLV, the recording quality was excellent in the 3.3x range, decent in the 6x range and mediocre in the 8x area . I would recommend recording them at 6x in this drive. RITEKW06 (Ritek) 6x DVD-RW: drive made 2x-4x-6x ZCLV, recording quality was excellent in 2x and 4x zones and ok in 6x zone. I would recommend burning them to this disc at 4x speed. Unfortunately, I don't currently have any discs capable of quality scanning on Blu-ray media, so I can't comment on the quality of the recording there, but at least it read its own recordings on the discs I've tried. As a side note, I was told that the software that came with it didn't come with any Blu-ray playback software - I couldn't confirm this as the software isn't compatible with my computer and I didn't intend to watch movies on this thing anyway, but to an extent this is to be expected considering how cheap the drive is.