Installation could not be more easy (one cable to plug in, no specific driver). The supplied USB cable is a bit short (60 cm) to reach the back of a tower. At first, I plugged in a hub and I had a very choppy playback (play, stop, recovery ...). I then put live on USB2 and USB3 but, although less frequent, I still had cuts. I then did a firmware update and since reading is no problem.
(I have not tried the version of PowerDVD comes with because I had just bought version 15).