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

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.

I'm extremely unhappy with my purchase of this drive. The build quality is quite flimsy, and it should be a red flag to any potential buyers that the USB cable is hard wired to the device, it's not detachable or replaceable. Adding to this questionable design choice is the fact that in order to get the drive to lie flat on a desk, you have to bend the USB cable sharply to get it to fit into a little recess that's been cut out of the frame. Pretty brutal treatment for a cable you can't replace.I suppose I could live with these things since I don't have a lot of physical media these days and this isn't a device I expected to be using often, but the biggest problem is the drive's performance. The few times it worked, everything was fine. No read errors, playback was great... but that's when it worked. Most of the time, the drive seemed to be unaware that a disc had been inserted. It would briefly spin up, spin down, spin up again, spin down, or worse, it would just do nothing. Sometimes it would read the disc upon insertion, but playback or ripping would immediately fail with a "no disc inserted" error.Strangely, another problem was that even though the drive behaved as though no disc had been inserted, it would also refuse to unmount the disc and open the drive bay, whether triggered via software or the physical eject button on the drive. I can't tell you the number of times I had to paperclip this thing to retrieve a disc from the drive. Sometimes I could get the drive to behave by dropping a heavy book on the desk right next to it--the drive seemed to "wake up" and read the disc with no problems after that. But I'm not spending $90 on something where you have to "jiggle the wires" to get it to work properly. That's just pathetic.Given the number of similar complaints I've read about this thing, I have no confidence that a replacement unit will perform any better. Any company that lets this many defective units off the production line isn't getting my money. If you're feeling lucky and want to gamble that maybe you'll receive one of the good ones, then go for it--it's a good price point, and other people seem happy with theirs--but I'd advise you to keep looking.

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.