External CD Drive as a substitute to the Apple Superdrive

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Many MacBooks don't have an internal CD drive, notably the Air, and as a result, people who have CDs are forced to get an external drive. I love music, and I've got tons of it on CDs, so I want a drive.

But the drive that Apple sells is ridiculously expensive, coming up at $99. There's mixed reviews about it as well.

I'm looking for a USB 2.0 external CD drive with decent read/write capabilities. It needs to be compatible with OS X and ideally with Windows as well. It should be fairly fast, and look decent as well.

I'm willing to spend up to $20 on this. I'm flexible on this, but I don't want to spend a lot of money on something that previous came "standard" on laptops.

Any drive that follows the USB mass storage standard (ie. most of them) should work. — Mark, Oct 08 '15 at 05:03

Paul Sweatte · Answer 1 · 2018-09-08T15:51:33.553

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Here are a couple of external USB CD drives within the price range:

2017 2016 Ultra Thin External USB 2.0 CD ROM CD Driver CD/DVD Optical Driver Portable CD Driver For PC Laptop-in Optical Drives from Computer & Office on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group
LG Super Multi Portable DVD Rewriter with M-Disc 328005 - Micro Center (UPC: 058231309133)

edited Sep 08 '18 at 15:51

answered May 29 '18 at 21:05

Paul Sweatte

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External CD Drive as a substitute to the Apple Superdrive

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