LaCie makes a $50 portable DVD drive that's powered by your Mac's USB bus. Handy for using on the road with a Macbook Air or Retina Macbook Pro. I replaced the optical drive in my Macbook Pro with a SSD and put the optical drive in a portable USB enclosure from Other World Computing. External CD DVD Drive,Dual USB C and USB 3.0 Superdrive Optical Drive Portable CD/DVD +/-RW Burner for Mac OS Windows Linux Chromebook MacBook (Black) 5.0 out of 5 stars 21 $36.99.
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Released in 2015, Pioneer’s BDR-XD05B is a clamshell-designed (opens from the top) slim and lightweight Blu-ray writer that offers a great experience in a design that’s just 8.2 ounces. Measuring 5.24 x 5.24 x.58 inches, the XD05B offers premium and proprietary features such as PowerRead and PureRead to assist in the delivery of smoother playback of both DVDs and CDs. The Pioneer will handle write speed at 6x for a Blu-ray on one quad-layer BDXL disc that can store the equivalent of around 27 DVDs.