Suggestions for good external CD/DVD drives

[Wageman]

My cd/dvd drive on my macbook has decided not to work and instead of wanting to pay the booku bucks to get it repaired I am looking into a good external drive that will work with a mac. Does anyone have any good suggestions?

 

[TEG]

I got a cheap $40 External DVD Burner at Best Buy. It works great.

TEG

 

[Bobioden]

Check out CDFreaks. They have tons of reviews on drives, media, etc...


http://www.cdfreaks.com/reviews/

 

[davidleon]

OWC Mercury Pro Dual Layer DVD-/+RW Pioneer DVR-115D 20X External

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MRBFWU2D115/

Both USB and Firewire, it works great.

 

[alphaod]

What's your budget? AFAIK most of these drives require a bulky AC brick.

 

[Wageman]

OWC Mercury Pro Dual Layer DVD-/+RW Pioneer DVR-115D 20X External

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MRBFWU2D115/

Both USB and Firewire, it works great.

Will this allow me to download programs onto my mac or am i SOL without fixing the drive?

 

[davidleon]

This drive will work with a USB and/or FireWire capable Mac right out of the box. No modifications are necessary.

 

[erinbrady08]

OWC Mercury Pro Dual Layer DVD-/+RW Pioneer DVR-115D 20X External

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MRBFWU2D115/

Both USB and Firewire, it works great.

This might seem like overkill in trying to find out about this product, but I'm sending it to my husband in Iraq--the MacBookPro DVD drive died upon its arrival to him apparently. I wanted to know if besides burning CD's and DVD's, whether the 115D plays CD's and DVD's on the native iTunes and DVD player software already on the Mac without requiring the installation of additional drivers or software. Thank you so much for your help!

 

[davidleon]

Yes, but set your CD and DVD preferences accordingly in Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> CDs & DVDs