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It can be genuinely difficult to find optical drives that aren't crap these days. All of the quality manufacturers left the scene years ago, so everything is a
by jandrese 2y ago
It can be genuinely difficult to find optical drives that aren't crap these days. All of the quality manufacturers left the scene years ago, so everything is a rebadged no-name Chinese cost optimized system, at least for DVDs. Blu-Ray might be in better shape, I have not messed with them much.
- nerdjon 2y agoThat does seem to be my impression, and I can't exactly blame the situation. I mean realistically how many drives that are not in video game consoles are we realistically selling anymore? Even less at this smaller scale (I always assumed the SuperDrive was nearly identical parts as what was once in the MBP and other Mac's) that many of these portable drives are at. I so rarely actually need one, but it might be worth just grabbing one and it sitting somewhere so its there.
- lldb 2y agoI think the easiest way to do this is get a used sata drive from a name brand, and a usb to sata adapter.