I have an external Blu-ray drive (Samsung SE-506BB) USB connected to a 27" iMac. what do i need to do to get it reading blurays and then what do i need for writing? and also a good authoring program to along with the samsung player

Hi Kurt, and thanks for your information

Two days ago I have the Blu Ray Drive (Samsung SE-506 BD).

I think I can burn some blu ray discs or DVD disc with Toast Burn, v1.0.1 (4+)

You can buy on Apple Store for 19.99

You think is necesary the Toast Titanium version?

Thanks

Toast Burn has not gotten the greatest reviews, but it's biggest drawback is that it only does two things; data disks on CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray disks, and disk copying. You cannot burn DVD or Blu-ray movie disks with it. So if you plan at any point to create movie disks that will work in a set top player like any commercial disk, Toast Burn can't do it.

Toast Titanium 12 must have been released very recently. It isn't marked down on the few other places I've found it. $99 at Amazon, same as directly from Roxio. Reviews I'm reading on version 12 though are pretty consistent that there's almost nothing new in it. Virtually identical to version 11. So I'd still get 11. Much cheaper at $42. Don't forget to purchase the $20 Blu-ray plugin if you plan on creating Blu-ray movies.

Thanks Kurt!!

One more question: what do you think about Data Burn Master program?

You think is a easy and cheap program for burn blu ray?

Never heard of it before, and there isn't anywhere near enough information on the page. It plainly tells you what types of disks it supports (-R +R etc.) and what types of disks it will burn, but nothing that says whether or not it does anything more than data disks. At $5, I'd be very surprised if it supported creating DVD or Blu-ray movie disks. Not to say it doesn't (because you can't tell), but I'd doubt it.

Found a review on it. The name is descriptive. "Data" Burn Master. Like Toast Burn, all it does is data disks. No support for creating movie disks.

Sorry to hijack the thread. I have the same drive which I bought purely to use to back up data. It was my understanding this would be simple and that you could just burn BDs from finder however it took me like 2 hours to burn one disc. Surely that can't be normal right?

That actually isn't unusual (in particular) for a 50 GB Blu-ray data disk. Writing isn't all that fast, and then you wait for the data to be verified.

This was actually just a single layer 25gb disc that to which I was trying to burn 22gb worth of data 😟

II'm kind of guessing from memory since I don't burn Blu-ray data disks all that often. But regardless of whether it's a 25 or 50 GB disk, it's a slow process. For whatever reason, the same disks burned as a Blu-ray movie gets done much faster from the same software (Toast Titanium 11 in my case).

New problems with Yosemite. I had the SE-506 reader and Aurora BD reader. All was oK with Mavericks. Now, afre having installed Yosemite, BD are not read after a long phase of trials. Additionally, I do not find any support from Samsung for Mac drivers of their product. Somebody has an idea?

I'm burning data blurays using my 506-bb BUT often i can't copy back data from the bluray despite a positive verify process.

I'm not using software of any kind, simply burning from the OS (Snow Leopard).

May I solve this issue using a specific burning app? May be a disks issue?

TIA

Luca

That's very unusual for a verified disk not to read back. That's what the verify process is for! To guarantee the process was successful, and the data can be read.

I usually use Verbatim or Sony Blu-ray disks and have had no issue with either.

I agree, this issue puzzled me a lot... I first buy TDK's, they're my first blurays so I can't compare.

I thought Toast might solve the problem, but since I don't need anything else then back-up data disks...

The first try will be buying Verbatim disks, I'll report you soon.

Thanks

Hi Friends,

Today i brought Samsung SE-506BB/TSBD 6X USB2.0 External Slim Blu-ray Writer Drive. In installation CD doesn't contain or existing for mac support software. When i went warranty page and found their support page. I downloded filmware from there. Please find below link for Imac and windows new filmware.

http://www.tsstodd.com/eng/firmware/fwdownload/?functionvalue=view&no=786

As noted earlier in this topic, no vendor supplies any kind of software with their Blu-ray players/recorders for the Mac OS. The drive itself will be seen by the OS and can read any Blu-ray data disk. If you have a write drive (which yours is), OS X can also write data disks using the Burn utility built into the OS.

To burn DVD or Blu-ray movie disks, you will have to purchase separate, third party software. To view Blu-ray movies, you will also need third party software. This one is free.

A firmware upgrade isn't going to change those limitations. They are meant to either fix flaws in the existing firmware, or to add support for newer optical media.