Anyone try an external DVD/CD-ROM drive for the Mac Mini?

Dracule1 · « **on:** 22 Feb 2011, 02:33 am »

Guess I'm a little paranoid my noisy vibrating internal Mini drive might damage a CD. I called Apple Care who told me a noisy vibrating Mini DVD/CD-ROM drive is not normal and could theoretically damage a CD. Anyone have any experience with a reliable quiet external DVD/CD-ROM drive? I prefer a FireWire drive but as USB drive will do. Thanks.

simon wagstaff · « **Reply #1 on:** 27 Feb 2011, 01:45 pm »

I had a couple of Memorex DVD burners that were USB 2 connected to my iMac. I burn a lot of discs. Had them for a little over two years and they started to give me trouble. I just dumped them and bought a couple of LG USB 2 drives, DVD CD burners from New Egg I think for 30 bucks. No reason they won't work just as well with a Mac Mini.

I have always been a little paranoid about those internal Mac drives. they are generally not state of the art in terms of burn speed and once, a long time ago, I had trouble getting a disc out and haven't really used the internal drive since.

jtwrace · « **Reply #2 on:** 27 Feb 2011, 02:37 pm »

Quote from: Dracule1 on 22 Feb 2011, 02:33 am

Guess I'm a little paranoid my noisy vibrating internal Mini drive might damage a CD. I called Apple Care who told me a noisy vibrating Mini DVD/CD-ROM drive is not normal and could theoretically damage a CD. Anyone have any experience with a reliable quiet external DVD/CD-ROM drive? I prefer a FireWire drive but as USB drive will do. Thanks.

Why not bring the Mini in for service and fix the problem?

avta · « **Reply #3 on:** 27 Feb 2011, 02:55 pm »

I second that. I'm a long time Mini user and have not run into your problem. I'm sure you could find a suitable external drive but I would worry that if you don't find out what's wrong and get it fixed you may run into other problems later.