Pros: - Fast - Quiet - Simple to install - Comes with Power2Go 8, PowerBackup 2.6, NERO BackItUp, and E-Green software - Vendor was closely engaged with my purchase and ready to support me

Cons: - You'll never be able to do more than back up UHD discs if you don't bow down to Intel SGX hardware and DRM (not the fault of this drive's manufacturer, this is a problem with the industry)

Overall Review: Before buying, you should know that DRM nonsense won't change the fact that you need to have the Intel SGX chipset (or whatever newer tech they replace it with) on your motherboard to be able to do anything with a UHD disc besides read data or make a backup image. Apart from that, this unit does everything, was easy to install, and is much faster than the 9 year old Dell drive it replaced. I was impressed that the vendor reached out to me personally and told me that if I run into any problems they'd be happy to help (and they even answered a question from me very quickly). I used this to rip Blu Rays to my media server, and the speed difference was dramatic: 4 hours of Blu-Ray content used to take 2 to 2.5 hours to rip, now it's getting the job done in about 30 minutes. Installation was literal plug & play and it uses Microsoft certified drivers (in Windows, anyway). The listing here notes that each unit is flashed with UHD-friendly firmware, so I'd advise against using the enclosed Firmware update - it does appear to read UHDs right out of the box. The disc also has CyberLink and Nero apps and ASUS' E-Green app (which drops power consumption when the drive isn't being used) if you need them.

Pros: Simple installation Fast read time

Cons: None

Overall Review: Installation into my new Homebrew system was straightforward and with installation of my software I was able to make a mkv backup of my 4k movies to place on my plex system. After discouraging results at trying to locate a valid and price effective drive it was nice to locate one finally that just, well works.

Pros: Does what is says it does. Simple installation. The drive reads the content of my 4k movies so that I can add them to my nas and play them with plex or kodi.

Cons: The drive is a little bit slower than previous optical drives I've purchased. It is technically not a 4k drive and as such does not meet the requirements of a 4k HTPC. Using Powerdvd 19ultra this drive will read dvd & standard bluray but not 4k discs, it simiply does not meet Cyberlink's requirements.

Overall Review: Decent drive with limitations.

Pros: Can back up UHD movies.

Cons: None

Pros: Using DVDFab 64 version 11, am able to do full copy backups of my UHD movies(: And can play my UHD movie disc's using DVDFab Player 5. Very Happy with this drive!

Cons: None

Overall Review: Recommend this product to other and would purchase this product again.

Pros: I was able to extract everything from a UHD Bluray movie with DRM protection. That's all I wanted. It comes with trial-ware but I just used MakeMKV, which is free.

Cons: If you're not using it, it will go to sleep and you'll have to wake it up by opening and closing it. But it came with power management software that might resolve that (not that it's really a problem). I just haven't installed it yet.

Overall Review: I recommend this drive if you want your favorite movies and shows backed up or streamable over Plex/DLNA.

Pros: I've had this drive for two months now. Drive IS UHD (4K) friendly and came with software from the seller. Had a snag with the software, sent an email @ 9pm, had the solution at 7AM the following morning. To be honest, the email was time stamped 1AM. So in summary, it does what they say it does, if you have a problem Support is there to help. Can't ask for more than that in the age of Covid.

Cons: none

Overall Review: AAA+++ Drive is 4K ready. Super product, great software

Pros: I have this ASUS UHD Friendly Blu-ray Combo Drive installed in an old Lenovo D20 ThinkStation, with Arch Linux as the OS. I rip Blu-Ray movie discs with MakeMKV CLI, and this drive works OK for ripping UHD Blu-Ray discs with makemkv-cli. I ripped two UHD movies with this new drive, and ultimately both discs were ripped OK.

Cons: I did run into problems at first, and I reached out to the Cloner Alliance (reseller providing this UHD-capable BD-ROM drive), and they informed me what the problem is. Apparently this and all UHD-capable BD-ROM drives suffer from what is known as the "Sleep bug." If you insert a UHD disc (I haven't tried with any other disc type yet), you need to access the drive with your reader software within two minutes, or else the drive "goes to sleep," and makes some really nasty noises while it tries to read the disc. Because of this issue, makemkv-cli would return SCSI or SATA timeout errors, and wouldn't read the disc. Ejecting, re-seating the disc, and closing the tray fixed it, both times. I wasn't aware of the problem at the time, but I suppose after re-seating the disc I started makemkv-cli within two minutes on each second try. It is for this problem alone that I knocked off an entire egg.

Overall Review: My only use-case for this UHD-capable BD-ROM drive is for ripping optical discs (UHD BD, BD, DVD, CD). I don't have plans to use its writing capabilities, as I don't typically back up to optical disc. Re-seating the disc in the tray fixed the problems I was having with it, and now that I know about the "sleep bug" I know how to workaround it going forward.