Asus Laptop With Optical Drive

My Asus rog strix scar edition gaming laptop didn't come with a optical drive so I bought this as a replacement and it works awesome super fast and ready to go out of the box I would definitely recommend

Many laptops today are design without a optical drive, and I just recently purchased one. I wanted a drive that would do all the things I previously had access to do, and the Asus BW-161x was the winner hands down. There's nothing I could imagine to do that this drive could not do. Asus products have always stand up to my use, which was a big plus.

I bought this DVD Drive to go along with an ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501VW DS71T laptop which doesn't include an internal DVD drive. This DVD drive is barely the size of a DVD disk. It matches nicely with the laptop. It comes with a software disk and a USB splitter cable (you will need two USB ports available on your computer to use this drive). It is well constructed and functions beautifully. The included software is optional. This drive is plug and play, however, my laptop didn't come with Windows DVD Player software. No Problem... I downloaded a highly downloaded free DVD software suite and it works perfectly. It does what I bought it to do. It is not a blue-ray player though. If that is important to you, you'll need to pick another drive.

Easily fits my old laptop, which is thicker that most because it's old enough to have an optical drive. On the side it fits the charging cable and my mouse. Now my laptop is protected along with my other equipment. I'm happy with the purchase and would recommend it.

Dropped this in the Optical Bay of a 2009 MacBookPro (along with a new battery) to breath a little more life in to a slow old laptop. This was a dream for the old machine!! Dropped it in the Optical Bay since that was no longer needed. Left the original 500GB in and use it as a second/storage drive. System now runs off this SSD and compared to what it used to be, absolutely screams in speed compared to the old hard drive. Was as quick fast install and works like a charm, definitely gave this 2009 laptop another 2-3 years of life as a basic internet/email/documents machine.

As my new Asus laptop didn't have a DVD drive, I bought this unit as it was the same brand of my laptop and the price was very attractive. Works as expected.

I have this drive in an Asus Arion usb-c external enclosure as a back-up drive and to quickly transfer games and movies between my laptop and desktop. Both my desktop PC and laptop are not the best and definitely have some bottlenecks, but even so I get over 600 mb/s transfer speeds 95% of the time for both reading and writing. It's become the drive I reach for the most for large video files especially. I definitely recommend it for this purpose, and I can only assume it would perform astoundingly well inside a pc as Kingston probably intended.

Nice and shinny and match's my new Asus Laptop! Works as it should.

Good quality and well made. Charging my Asus laptop as well as the original one.

works great with Asus ROG laptop