External Blu Ray Drive, Support 50G Disc Read/Write Bluray Drives, Portable 3D Blu Ray Burner with USB 3.0 and Type-C, Cd Player Suitable for Windows XP/7/8/10/11 MacOS for Laptop, Desktop, Mac

Used this to digitize wedding videos on my 2017 Intel based MacBook Pro. Worked as expected. Computer needed a reboot before it was properly recognized.

used 2 times and now not working. Makes lots of noise. Door doesn't want to open. doesn't read disc. I don't recommend. Waste of moneybought in March 2024

I really wanted to like this external Blu-ray drive, but unfortunately, it's been a huge disappointment. It worked great at first, but after 2 months of use, it started to give me consistent "IPC errors" whenever I try to read blu ray discs. When I first got the drive, it was quick, reliable, and easy to set up. I was able to back up blu rays without any issues.However, after about a month, things started to go wrong. Now, every time I try to rip a blu ray disc, it gets 400 MB in and freezes, then after a while gives me an "IPC error" an. This issue renders the drive almost completely useless. I bought it primarily for backing up, and now it doesn't even read the discs the whole way. I've tried restarting, reconnecting the drive and trying other discs to no avail.I had high hopes for this product, but now I’m just frustrated. It's hard to recommend this drive when it's so unreliable after 2 months of use. It may work for you initially, but if you’re looking for something that will last and consistently perform well, look elsewhere. Very disappointed.

This will write to a blu-ray disc. The listing sort of says that on the graphics, but is very cryptic in the text, making this seem like a scam trying to sell you a blu-ray reader that will not write. It does, in fact, write to blu-ray discs.I downloaded a free disc-writing program, plugged this in to my pc, and it wrote a disc with no problem.Strangely, as others have said, it will not read a disc without a powered usb outlet, meaning you need a usb splitter that plugs into the usb port on your computer as well as having its own power supply that plugs into a power outlet. When set up like that this thing works flawlessly, but without the powered usb port, it will not read data from a disc, or even load a dvd.

I got this drive today, initially, I plugged it directly into a port on the front of my PC. Device manager did recognize it, but when I put a disc in, it would freak out and keep getting removed/reinsterted from device manager. I was disappointed, until I remembered that I was likely dealing with a device that required a fairly decent amperage draw, likely beyond that provided from a standard USB port. I plugged the drive into my powered USB hub and voila! It works as expected. Drive is detected as a Pioneer BD-RW BDR-UD02D, and is set to the US region AFAIK. I would not attempt a firmware update, as the firmware is likely a hacked version of the pioneer firmware, as I'm fairly certain the internal hardware is not provided by Pioneer. Nonetheless, the drive performs well for the price.

I bought a new laptop last year, and I love how quick it is, but the trend these days with laptop and desktop computers alike is that they no longer come with DVD or Blu-Ray drives.I often use my laptop to watch movies, and it's still useful to me to have the ability to burn data to optical media for long-term storage and to install software with a DVD/Blu-Ray drive.I was just a bit unsure about whether this would work for my specific case since my laptop is set up in dual boot mode (Linux and Windows 11), with Linux as the operating system that I boot into 99% of the time.I'm happy to say that this drive is recognized perfectly without problem in Linux, and I've been watching movies using it without a hitch.The speed of the drive is very good, and it's nice that it supports Blu-Ray for greater capacity disks.I highly recommend this for the many of you out there who would like to use optical media with either your laptop or desktop computer.

For some reason, only reads Blu Ray at 2X on my Mac hooked up to a powered USB hub rather than the 6X in the spec. No additional software included.

Works well