They also had tray loading, and this Apple drive does not, which turns out to be easier and requires less room, or at least seems to take less room. The Genuine Apple USB SuperDrive only requires one USB port, whereas my two previous cheap drives required two. However, there are still some upsides to this. If it happens with a genuine Apple product, then there is no solution for this. But that problem is still a problem, unfortunately.

So, after a lot of years of these two cheap drives working well (I would use one for a while and for some reason or another switch to the other, but they both had the same performance) and ripping literally thousands of CD's into my iTunes library, I decided to get this Genuine Apple USB drive, thinking that the problem of lost recognition would disappear. I had this problem where after enough time, my Mac (24' iMac, and later a 2014 Mac Mini) wouldn't recognize it unless I restarted. I was using some cheap black plastic external drives, which, honestly, weren't bad.

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