Optical Drive For Mac

An external optical drive is an imperative item for those goofballs who forgot to buy a computer, laptop or Mac book without an internal DVD drive. Most of you already know what an external optical drive entails, it lets you use DVDs, CD, and Blu-rays on your device. It can read and write data on. Everything you need in an optical drive. Well, if you're using the Apple USB Superdrive, the answer is six, apparently. I've had this drive on two computers, a Mac Pro at work and another at home and it never goes smoothly. Either it can't read the disc, or says it can't get information fast enough or the drive doesn't show up. Although most sellers on Amazon emphasize that their products support Mac system, there is not really any external CD DVD drive that can be well compatible with new Mac OS, most of them only support Mac OS 10.10.x and below.

External & Internal
Blu-ray Drive Options

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Store up to 128GB on a single disc
Connect with fast connections like eSATA, FireWire 800/400 and USB 3.0
Blu-ray read & write speeds up to 16x
Up to 16x DVD, 8x DVD-DL, 48x CD
Backup data
Create home movies

Blu-ray On Your Mac Select drives include Multi-Interface – eSATA, FireWire 800/400 and USB2.0. Perfect for fast transfers and limiting read/write errors.
Blue Laser A blue laser can be focused to a much smaller spot than a red laser can. This smaller, tighter focus means that up to 50GB can be packed onto a single disc.
Native Support Burn Blu-ray data discs right from Mac OS Finder! Blank Blu-ray discs burn just like a blank CD or DVD. Insert a blank BD-R and it will mount on your desktop where you can drag and drop any files for burning.
Author Pro Movies You can author Blu-ray movies with Toast 10 Pro, Final Cut Studio, Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore CS4/CS5.
Backup Blu-ray Discs Make Backups of your Blu-ray discs that you already own, or keep a duplicate of a disc in case the original gets damaged.

Sharing discs

If your Mac doesn't have a built-in optical drive and you need to use a CD or DVD, you can connect an external drive like the Apple USB SuperDrive. You can also share discs from the optical drive of another Mac, or from a Windows computer that has DVD or CD Sharing Setup installed. DVD or CD sharing allows you to access documents stored on these discs, and allows you to install some software.

DVD or CD sharing isn't designed for some kinds of optical media. Connect a compatible optical drive directly to your Mac if you need to use one of these discs:

Audio CDs
Blu-ray or DVD movies
Copy protected discs (such as some game discs)
Recordable CDs or DVDs that you want to burn or erase
Microsoft Windows installation discs

If you have a Microsoft Windows install disc that you want to use with Boot Camp, you can create a disc image of this disc and copy it to a USB flash drive for installation instead.

Setting up a Mac to share discs

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To share discs from a Mac that has a built-in or external optical drive, use these steps:

On the Mac that has an optical drive, choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
Click the Sharing icon in the System Preferences window.
Make sure you've entered a name that you can easily recognize in the Computer Name field.
Enable the checkbox for DVD or CD Sharing.
You can also restrict who has access to your optical drive by selecting 'Ask me before allowing others to use my DVD drive.'

Setting up a Windows PC to share discs

To share discs from a Windows PC that has a built-in or external optical drive, use these steps:

Download and install DVD or CD Sharing Update 1.0 for Windows.
From Control Panel, open 'Hardware and Sound'
Click 'DVD or CD Sharing Options.'
Select the checkbox for DVD or CD Sharing.
You can also restrict who has access to your optical drive by selecting 'Ask me before allowing others to use my DVD drive.'

If you're sharing discs from a Windows computer and your PC has firewall software enabled, be sure to allow access to the following programs from your firewall:

ODSAgent
RemoteInstallMacOSX

Use a shared DVD or CD

After you've enabled DVD or CD Sharing, you can use that computer's optical drive at any time. Insert a disc in the optical drive of the computer that's being shared. The disc should then be available on any Mac that's connected to the same network.

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On the Mac that doesn't have an optical drive, open a Finder window.
Select Remote Disc in the Devices section of the sidebar. You should see the computer that has DVD or CD Sharing enabled.
Double-click the computer's icon, then click Connect to see the contents of the CD or DVD available from that computer.

If you can't use a shared disc

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If your Mac already has a built-in optical drive, or an external optical drive connected, you won't see the Remote Disc feature appear in the Finder or other apps.