It depends on what you're using it for. I have a couple of Blu-Ray drives, and they're much more finicky than the SuperDrive. When a disc won't read or write

It depends on what you're using it for. I have a couple of Blu-Ray drives, and they're much more finicky than the SuperDrive. When a disc won't read or write in my Pioneer drive, I try it in my no-name Blu-ray drive, and when that fails, I try it in the SuperDrive, and it always works. I consider something that works reliably 99% of the time to be a better value than something that works 80% of the time.