Gotega External DVD Drive, USB 3.0 Portable +/-RW, DVD Player for CD ROM Burner Compatible with Laptop Desktop PC Windows Linux OS Apple Mac Black

Product arrived on time and in great condition. Very happy with this purchase. It worked immediately and has been running smoothly. In my opinion, it’s perfectly reliable. I will say Every product has its hit-or-miss cases, I got lucky — and I’m happy I gave it a shot

I've had this for 2 years. It plays movies for me great, which is really all I bought it for. I plug it in and my movie pops up.Yesterday, it suddenly stopped working. I just had my techie teenager work on it, and he had it fixed in under 5 minutes. Apparently the cord inside had gotten disconnected, so I got a little lecture to not pull on the cord. Haha. I would rather give it 4.8 stars, because the cord is so short, so if I have my laptop on my lap and have to switch positions, I have to carefully reposition it too. That's the only drawback for me.

Let me start by saying this should really be a 3 1/2 star rating, and if the drive writes as slowly as it reads I'd drop it to 3 stars.So first the good stuff:Drive is well packaged by the manufacturer and includes an instruction card that is actually useful and readable if you really need one.Plug and play worked perfect right out of the box on both Windows 10 Pro and Windows 11 Pro.Drive has an eject button (something ridiculously missing on other drives of this type) and even an emergency eject mechanism so kudos there as well.Drive played both music CDs and DVD movies quickly using VLC Media Player but getting them recognized was a bit of a jump through hoops situation (more on that below).Generous warranty (IF the manufacturer actually honors it).The not so good stuff:The drive is made of a cheap plastic and does not feel solid or well made.Instead of a drop in tray this drive uses the lower quality and less reliable snap-in type and you have to be very careful here because if you exert too much pressure I believe the tray will either break off or at the very least come out of it's sliders.You have to force the cable into a very narrow slot in the bottom to get the drive to sit flat (and believe me you want to to sit flat or the laser does NOT read the disc).Cable is EXTREMELY short. Even when using a laptop you have to have enough space right next to the laptop for the cable to reach. And you can't actually use it if your laptop is on your lap (Hence the name laptop). Could not use on either of my Desktop PCs, even the short tower without having to spend additional money for an extension cable.Reading data from a Disc is EXTREMELY SLOW. Insert a Disc and the drive spins up and makes noise fairly quick, then just seems to hang there for a LONG time like it's having trouble reading. At times the drive would disappear from the list of drives and then reappear after a LONG wait. Then it would be 7 - 10 minutes for the disc contents to finally show up. Click on what you want and the long process starts all over again before the content opens.Reading music CDs and DVDs was quicker but Windows Media Player and Movies and TV both reported "No data found on disc" errors and showed 0 Bytes. I had to install VLC Media Player for the disc to be recognized and played. Even then I did not get the usual popup asking me what I wanted to do with the disc. I had to go into the list of drives, right click this drive and then select the "Open With" option form the context menu and choose VLC Media Player to get them to play (Choosing either Windows Media Player or Movies and TV here still yielded the same errors mentioned above).Right-clicking the drive in the drive list gives an option to "Eject" but this simply ejects the disc from the drive, not the drive from the PC. And.........There is no option to "Safely Remove Drive" so make sure there is no disc in the drive before you disconnect it.Overall Impressions:Drive is okay for the price when it comes to reading discs as long as you have a LOT of patience and a little experience with how drives work on Windows. I have not tried writing any discs yet, but if the write times are as poor as the read times I don't think this drive would be worth the price even on sale.

Works great. I’ve had this product for about 18 months and no problems. Used only for downloading music cds to my pc. Downloaded close to 50 cds. I haven’t tried to burn and cds yet. Perfect for my needs.

Update I reached out to support 7/9/25 they responded 7/22/25. That's almost two weeks to respond. Asking if cd is scratched. Really are you kidding me right now.So much for 24 hour support. What an absolute joke.This product has never worked. I bought it a while ago never got it to work thought it was user error. I finally had time to sit down and figure it out. However I wasted 2 days of my life trying to get it to work and nothing. PC knows it's there however it doesn't recognize CDs doesn't recognize DVDs I've got a media player installed and it still doesn't recognize the media. I went through the pages and pages of instructions to get this thing to work nothing. I wasted $20 and a few days of my life on this useless piece of junk. I requested support gave them my information I've not gotten a confirmation email the confirmation on the screen is in Chinese so I don't know what it said. Trust me when I say spend a couple more dollars and buy quality this thing is just the cheapest Chinese junk money can buy. By the way my real review is zero stars but you know how that goes.

As advertised. Great value

Thank you.