Recommended CD/DVD drive for MacBook Pro 2023

Drives for OWC seem to get good reviews here. This is their listing:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-storage#drive-type:optical-drives

Unless you need to travel with the optical drive, I highly recommend the Mercury Pro over the "Slim." The Mercury has an independent power source, replaceable power and data cabling should the cat chew on one, and is a tray-loader, generally more reliable than slot-loading drives.

7BML wrote:

Thanks. It’s just that they would seem to be too bulky to travel, etc.

Look at the Pioneer BDR-XD08S. It's USB 3.2 Gen 1, eminently portable, bus powered and you can also get an external a power supply if you want one (DCA-003) (also portable-sized). Compatible with CD, DVD, BD & M-Disc media. Personally, I do recommend the external power supply; burning disks takes almost all the power the USB bus can provide and if you have other bus-powered USB devices connected at the same time, none of them may work. Using the power supply eliminates that problem.

I have the predecessor model BDR-XD07S and it works like a breeze.

Hi,

You should get self powered CD/DVD drive, rather than bus powered one.

Is your apple superdrive not working or are you getting the error message that it needs power? If you're getting the power error message you probably bought a newer MAC and you might just need a different connector, Apple had me buy this one, which provides the superdrive with power and connects to my new MAC. USB-C to USB adapter, it's on their website, inexpensive.