There are tray loading optical drives, the kind considered to be equivalent to
the 'superdrive' that can use most common read/write DVD + CD media.
These are usually less costly than the Apple external USB Superdrive.
A tray-loading model (runs off power adapter, etc) can be a good investment
especially should you use it to play commercial zoned pre-recorded media
that may demand your player to set a code for each region the discs are from.
And these also allow the user to try any odd shaped discs, that would be lost
to the mechanism inside a slot-load optical drive. In the rarer case of labels
that some users had placed on their discs, the tray-load drive won't jamb.
Up to DVD 24X, DVD-DL 16X, CD-RW 48X Read/Write(burn) speeds.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/
Plug and Play from $39.00
Examples of the tray-load optical drive can be seen in the OWC macsales site;
other similar may be available near your location in a reputable computer store.
Certain ones that are mac-centric do very well; they are inexpensive enough to
consider buying more than one, if you travel often between two locations, so
you could leave one at the destination and avoid carrying one along that route.
Since optical drives no longer are an included internal accessory for the most part
these can be handy where disc media are still in use. In my older Macs where the
internal optical drives have failed, the cost to repair/replace is mitigated by these.
Good luck! 🙂
