ASUS today announced ZenDrive U8M, an all-new, high-style external DVD-writer drive that features the latest-gen USB-C® interface to enable instant and convenient multimedia playback and data archivi... ASUS Announces ZenDrive U8M
8x is fine, no one likes optical drives that sound like they taking off anyway. Not sure why it dont have Bluray Read/Write too, but sure it wont be cheap