USB 3.0 and Type-C External Bluray Drive, External Bluray CD DVD Burner and Blu Ray Disc Reader for pc, CD DVD Reader Compatible with Windows XP/7/8/10, Laptop, Desktop, MacOS for MacBook

Digital media is pretty much the new normal for many devices and many current laptops don't have built disc drives anymore. This external disc drive is a handy solution if you find yourself with a laptop without a disc drive and have some old (or new media) on discs that you would like to play, like music CDs or movies. The drive pretty much does the job at handling disc media and disc data in the same way a built in CD drive does.The drive is a good size, about the size of a standard CD, making it portable. The top surface has a very slick finish with some cool added lighting that changes color. Discs are loaded via a pop out tray, works very similarly to many PC laptopsHas a built in USB cable that contains both a USB 3.0 and a USB type C connection at the end for added flexibility. There is also a micro-USB port at the back of the drive for connecting to an additional USB power source, but I haven't found myself really needing it yet since the laptop supplies power through the built USB cable.The drive works both on PCs (Windows 10) and Macs (MacOS Catalina 10.15.3). For both operating systems, the drive is very much plug and play for viewing disc data. For playback on Windows 10, Windows Media Player will play CDs. For DVD playback, I had to do a bit of digging to find something that will work in 2020, but VLC media player is a good free player that will play DVDs on Windows.On MacOS, Apple Music and Apple's DVD Player will automatically play CD and DVD media respectively. For MacOS specifically, I found that you may need to shut down and boot up your computer with the drive plugged in (versus plugging the drive into a computer that's already on) in order for the OS to recognize the external drive's CD and DVD media (versus just viewing the discs as data). You'll know if MacOS can recognize CD and DVD media if you go to System Preferences and you see "CDs & DVDs" listed. If it isn't, restart your machine with the drive plugged in. The drive also functions differently as expected on Macs for ejecting discs, requiring an eject from the MacOS software directly as opposed to the physical eject button (which works with Windows).The included manual for the drive also lists specific programs for Blu Ray playback on both Windows and Mac (PowerDVD for Windows and Macgo Blu Ray for Macs) as well as other important information. I was able to get Blu ray playback on a MacBook Pro running Catalina with the Macgo Blu-ray Player Pro (free version available with paid registration that removes a small watermark). No problems at all, picture and sound quality is top notch.All in all, a solid, capable, and very versatile disc drive that does the job on both operating systems. Very happy with it and I will definitely be using it. It's very nice being able to play some of my old disc media again at home on a computer after not being able to for a while (I normally use a MacBook Air which has no disc drive). Plus if I find other CDs from decades ago lying around containing some long lost data from college or even high school years, it'll be nice to be able to access them again for nostalgia's sake. Which is kind of how I see this device, a way to unlock nostalgia from years past. Plus the added ability to play Blu ray media (something the Apple Superdrive is unable to do) is a huge plus.Digital media is still the future, but there's still a small place for disc media for many of us (my parents especially too), and having a device to make it available on all laptops is very handy. Definitely consider buying.

I bought this Blue Ray burner, it was delivered the end of October 2019. Seemed a great value for the price.After only two weeks, it stopped reading DVDs. My PC would recognize the drive was attached , but would not read any DVDs.I contacted the company through the email address provided on a card that was inserted in the packaging.They responded quickly seemingly wanting to make things right.they issued me a 99% Coupon without any instructions on how i was to redeem this 99% coupon.After several back and forth emails, they explained the coupon use on Amazon or by my prompting, they would send me a replacement Blue-ray directly.Based on the email grammar, i chose the coupon route, even though I had to pay .87 cents because the coupon was only a 99% coupon, not a 100% coupon. they did offer to refund me the .87 cents.I chose the coupon because their grammar indicated to me that they would probably ship the unit from a far off place like China would would take a long time.Received the replacement drive in typical fast amazon shipping method.It worked great for two days and is now giving me read errors. I tested the brand new DVD I was using in another drive I have, and everything was fine. I move it back to the Blue Ray and get read errors.I recommend steering clear from this product.Updated review 02 Dec 2019The mfr sent me. Third drive claiming they had made technical improvements but when it arrived, My PC recognized the drive but it would not read any proven good DVD’s. Informed the mfr but I no longer hear anything from them. Confirmed they are a China company based on the return address they shipped the drive from.Steer clear of this drive.

Thank you this products and function normally extraordinary support operating system windows mac OSI have lots of devices at home, they are using different operation systems and different interfaces. This one works great with them! And it is small and lightweight. My DVD disks are not arrived yet but I really expect to use it to write my photos into disks.Plug it in and it works. I'm at a loss for anything else to say.It worked fine on reading DVDs in good shape that I'd burned twelve years ago and it did as well as can be expected in reading a somewhat scratched commercial DVD of about the same age. It was unable to read a heavily scuffed BluRay disk, but I can't hardly blame the drive for that. The destructive power of small children can defeat any technology.This drive works with both Windows 10 and Linux. It has both USB-A and USB-C connectors on the attached cable. I wasn't able to test with Macintosh, not owning one. I didn't test with a CD, either, as I couldn't find any; the household's music went non-physical years ago.I haven't yet burned any disks. I don't need to at the moment and it's been so long since I've needed to burn a DVD that I'd have to dig out the spindle of blanks.Speed in reading DVDs is ok but it's coming over a USB cable. I suspect the limitation is the port, not the drive itself.This products very good fungtion