Express your digital life with style, convenience, and value!

The OWC Slim optical drive solution makes CD and DVD creation Plug and Play easy. A fast USB 3.2 interface and a lightweight design provides portable convenience and flexibility for use with both Macs and PCs. Now you can add high performance optical drive functionality with stylish value to notebook or desktop computers.

Supports the burning of up to 50GB of data or high definition video per Blu-ray disc, or up to 8.5GB using low-cost Dual Layer DVDs.

Compact and versatile - No AC Adapter Required!

The OWC Slim optical drive solution offers stylish mobile disk read/write ability with a sleek, totally bus powered design.Take your digital life with you wherever you roam!

Reads and Writes Blu-ray discs

Although commercial Blu-ray movie playback not supported in OS X, Blu-ray discs do mount on the desktop and can be backed up to the computer or played via third party software options.

M-DISC - The Perfect Long-Term Archive Solution

The OWC Slim USB 3.2 External Optical 8X DVD/CD Burner supports the revolutionary M-DISC format, making it the ideal solution for reliable long-term backup and archiving. Compared to other recordable storage media like DVDs and Tape, M-DISC offers superior reliability and protection against data loss that will last a thousand years (or more)!

M-DISCs use a proprietary layer made from inorganic, rock-like material for permanent data storage, protected from data rot and extremes of light, humidity and temperature change. Once written, the M-DISC can be read or played on any quality DVD drive that supports the common DVD+R/RW format. Shop our selection of Optical Media.

• BD-R/RE
• CD-RW
• DVD-R/RW

• USB 3.2 (Gen 1) Micro-B
• USB 3.0
• USB 2.0
• USB 1.1

• Windows XP
• Windows 11
• Windows 7
• Windows 7 x64
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 8 x64
• Windows 10
• Windows 10 x64
• Windows XP x64
• Windows XP Professional x64
• Windows Vista
• Windows 8
• Windows 8.1 x64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022
• Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
• Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
• macOS 10.12
• macOS 10.13
• macOS 10.14
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11.x
• macOS 12.x
• macOS 13.x
• macOS 14.x
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks
• OS X 10.10 Yosemite
• OS X 10.11 El Capitan
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows 2000
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
• Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah
• Windows ME
• Mac OS 9.0
• Mac OS 9.1
• Mac OS 8.6
• Mac OS 9.2
• Mac OS X
• Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
• Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

• Notebook
• Desktop

• External Optical 6X BDR/8X DVDRW Burner
• 1 x High Quality 'Y' type Dual USB 3 (Dual 'A' to 'Micro-B' type) cable
• 1 x User Guide
• 1 x Quick Start Guide
• 1 Year OWC Limited Warranty

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