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

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?

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.

Thanks for this. I spent most of the day searching for a solution for why Toast 12 with HD-BD plug-in wasn't showing the BD selections for my new SE-506CB. Tried everything anyone said with zero luck. Found this, went to the link and downloaded the TSDNMAC.app and the SE-506CB_TS02.bin file (vs. the BB version). Followed the instructions http://www.tsstodd.com/kor/Firmware/FWDownload/maceng.htm, the machine rebooted and all is well. Toast now shows CD, DVD, DVD DL, BD, BD DL, BD XL 100, and BDXL 128. Awesome! Hemanthsai, you rock!

I tried vlc,which canot play most blurays, and powerdvd is somewhat expensive for me, and upgrate service is not free. After selection, i choose ufusoft mac blu ray player, i do think it is an ideal choice. And the blu ray playing steps is very easy.

I have the Samsung SE-506 and my MB pro 10.10.5 does not see that it is connected if there is a Blu ray disc in the tray. I have blu-ray playing software, but without the drive showing up I have no way to access the discs. Drive does not appear in finder, disk utility, or in system report with a blurry disc in the tray. Works fine with DVD, just no BD. Any ideas?

Does any Blu-ray disk appear on the desktop when inserted? Such as any you've created as a data disk? If not, the laser for Blu-ray disks may be dead. All such drives use different lasers for the type of disk in the drive. So it's entirely possible to still use DVD or CD disks, but not Blu-ray. The only real way to test that is to try another drive.

I have an SE-506 which worked great with 10.7.3 but didn't mount at all on my new MacBook Pro early 2015 with 10.12 Sierra and it didn't mount at all when I connected it to the USB port. But when I used a Targus USB hub (has a red light but doesn't plug in) it mounted on the desktop. I haven't tried burning anything but at least it mounted. Yeah!

I'm having the same problem. I bought it because it says it's compatible with MAC. Here's a photo

Software Blu-ray player Mac OS X

http://www.macblurayplayer.com/

Blu-ray burning/writing/authoring software OS X

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/pro/overview.html