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.

I'm using this drive with a MacBook Air M1 on MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1 primarily to transfer movies to the computer using MakeMKV and Handbrake. I've been able to read 1080p blu-ray discs (tried both Region A and Region B).The drive comes set to DVD region 1 (North America), but you can change it to a different region (only 4 region changes are allowed though). Attempting to read DVD region 2 results in an error message (looks like the only workaround to DVD region locking would be to buy multiple drives and then set each of them to the DVD region that you need). When you start the built-in MacOS DVD player with a mismatched DVD region, it will prompt you to set the region code and show you the count down of how many region settings you have left.The drive comes with 2 USB cables. The cable tucked under the drive itself is for data and conveniently has both a USB-A and USB-C plug on it. The other cable is a USB-A to USB micro-B used for power (you have to supply your own USB-A power brick). Although it is possible sometimes to run the drive with just the data cable, sometimes the drive itself powers off in the middle of data transfer, so also plug in the USB power cable to avoid this problem.