Pros: Great price & I was tired of buying auction parts. Fast shipping from Newegg as always. Never had one "Lite-On" Optical Drive fail over the past 12 years of buying this brand. You can trust this brand.

Cons: None unless you can count 1 return out of about between 30 to 40 optical drives purchased.

Overall Review: Lite-On has been producing great optical drives for years. I was glad to start seeing them on newegg because I was getting tired of buying auction site items because of the limited return policies & over priced so called new drives that came in sandwich bags & not either an OEM box or a manufacturers package. It's hard to trust sellers that sell out of their basement or kitchen. I also like the fact that Lite-On took over manufacturing the 2 largest computer processors that are used world wide. That seems hard to believe that a smaller company that was just manufacturing optical drives ended up manufacturing the CPU's that we tend to argue over which one is better when they both come out of the same building. Back to Lite-On optical drives. Like I mentioned above, I think I've only had 1 failure out of the some 30 to 40 drives I've purchased under the Lite-On name. I forgot how many other drives they used to make but that amount an go up & down because once a company produces 100's of thousands of drives, some of those companies have made enough money to start their own plants, while some just continue to have Lite-On do it since they don't have to have plants built, only warehouse space to handle/ship their products. What I've noticed was once I started taking time to read up on firmware updates, I was able to get more mileage out of the drives & also pass the information to customers who would email me with question about problems they were having. Lite-On makes a really great product so sale prices or not, they've always been a good investment.

Pros: I could not use it to give any pros about this product.

Cons: I was mislead a bit. I was under the impression that this part can be used in a Desktop. That is not the case here. I do wish that this product did come with a cord, but does not.

Overall Review: Over all the part looked nice, and I'm sure it works fine. Just I couldn't use it.

Pros: Wanted to replace the "standard" dvd reader in a refurb Lenovo Thinkpad T430 with a dvd burner, just to have that capability. Looked at the specs and this seemed to fit. It did.

Cons: Had to swap face plates as this comes with a flat plate and the T430 needs a beveled edge to fit snug in case. Googled instructions. Took me several tries over several days (giving up in frustration) until I finally succeeded. More difficult than it should have been.

Overall Review: Whether I'll ever use the write capability, given the ubiquitousness of flash drives, can't say, but for $20, worth it to have the capability. After all, a dvd will play on a dvd player; need a computer for flash drive. It is possible to use this as externally, but does require a not-included USB 2.0 to 7+6 13Pin Slimline SATA Laptop CD/DVD Rom Optical Drive Adapter Cable.

Pros: I have had Lite-On products since I bought my first CD drive for a 486 computer, and have found them to be reliable. I just had to switch over the locking mount from the failed drive and away I went. My wife's Dell Optiplex 755 uses the same type optical drive and I had to take mine out and put in hers so I can boot from a DVD. I am back to order another one for her computer.

Cons: The biggest con isn't with the drive itself, but the faceplate that comes with the computer had to be changed to this one and the best way to get the drive open is to go into the computer and right click on the DVD Player and select "Eject". The button is very hard to push since the side of the computer curves in toward the bottom. I have tried with marginal success to push the button to pop out the tray.

Overall Review: Yes I would recommend this product and as I stated I am back to buy another one!

Pros: Works

Cons: Read time for a 61MB DVD folder was 15.5sec, slightly worse than the 13sec of the OEM HP GUB0N drive it was supposed to upgrade! Read time for a 7.3GB DVD folder was 31minutes, almost double the 16m17s for the OEM HP drive!

Overall Review: Thickness of this unit was too great (13mm) to replace the OEM HP GUB0N drive in my HP desktop (9.5mm thick).

Pros: Ok

Cons: Didn't fit dell laptop

Pros: This Lite-On DS-8ACSH was purchased to replace the failed optical drive in an hp Elite Desk 800 G1 tower. (Yes, it is a tower case, and yes, it does use a 12.7mm height drive, which is usually found in a laptop.) I am happy that this drive fits perfectly in place of the original drive. It seems to read discs quite a bit faster than the original drive, though this might be due to the gradual failure over time of the old drive. Windows 10 recognized the drive immediately and it worked without anything further.

Cons: None at this time.

Overall Review: This drive seems to be a solid performer at a good price. I am planning to order another, to replace a well-used drive in a Lenovo ThinkPad.

Pros: It doe's what it suppose to do work good

Overall Review: yes i would recommend to some one