Review on 📀 JOTEC External USB 3.0 6X Blu-ray Player Blu-ray Combo Drive DVD cd Burner Drive - Compatible with New iMac MacBook Pro OS and Windows 7 8 10 PC (Grey) - High-Speed Data Transfer & Multi-platform Support by Victor Glatzel

Jotec? Joke Tech would be more appropriate. This is one of those cases where the "you get what you pay for” principle applies. A Hitachi/LG BT20N slim drive is used as the drive, as was often used in laptops – or was when storage media was something special. The drive itself is fine, but the case is made of such thin plastic that sometimes the drive door wouldn't close because the case was flexed inward. And the case controller is hardly compatible, at least on a Mac (OS 11.4), which makes this drive unusable in the long run. (I don't know who makes the controller, how old it is, or if it's even Mac compatible). A common scenario for me was that for two days the drive initially worked fine but refused to eject the Blu-ray when it finished. Pressing the front button did absolutely nothing, and the only solution was to dust off an old, secure paperclip to open the door. Then when the next BD was inserted, the drive was idle. Unplugging the cables didn't help, although restarting my computer worked once. I got frustrated and started working on something else and suddenly the drive spun up and started reading the disc. Rinse, wash, repeat. Happen. hard pass. Returned. Again, this could be a Mac issue and works great on Windows computers. I can't tell as I don't have a Windows computer. But the build quality of the case is certainly not up to par. Although it's advertised as 6x Blu-ray reading, I've never seen speeds higher than 4x. Most of the time it reads at 2x speed. On the other hand, all the discs it read read flawlessly. The noise level is average for a thin drive. The drive comes with a USB 3.0 cable and a USB-A cable for power. You must provide your own paper clip.