Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought it because there are times it is nice to have a DVD drive, but it is hard to justify the price of the Apple drive. I have had problems with other external drives drawing too much power on a single USB port. These drives came with a cable that can plug into two USB ports, but that doesn't work well on computers without two close-together USB ports. This drive seems to work fine. I was able to read and burn a CD with no problems. I haven't tried writing a DVD, but don't need to do that very often and have no reason to think that won't work. The drive is made of plastic and has a tray, unlike the Apple Superdrive. It has a separate USB cable (i.e., not built-in), again unlike the Apple drive. Still, at 1/2 the price given how often I expect it will be used it is perfect.