Overview
OWC Slim 8X External Optical Burner
The OWC Slim is the good-looking, great value CD/DVD drive that's indispensable in your gear bag. A fast USB 3.2 interface and a lightweight design provides portable convenience and flexibility for use with both Macs and PCs. Just plug in the included USB cable and the OWC Slim is ready to go - perfect for school, home, work, and play.
Compact and Versatile, Everywhere
The OWC Slim offers stylish mobile disk read/write ability with a sleek, totally bus-powered design. It's small enough to slip into a laptop bag so you'll always have an optical drive on hand, whatever your needs. Supports CDs at up to 24x speed and 700MB, and DVDs at up to 8x speed and 8.5GB dual layer. The OWC Slim also supports M-DISC technology.
Total Backup & Archiving Solution
Optical media is a great, secure solution for long term archiving and backup — especially for photos, audio files, and video. Optical media is durable, portable easy to store, and long-lasting. Don't let your only copy be the one on your hard drive — plug in an OWC Slim drive for a portable backup solution.
M-DISC - The Perfect Long-Term Archive Solution
The OWC Slim optical drive 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.
- Bus-powered, no AC adapter needed
- Portable and travel-ready design
- Supports M-DISC extended life media for superior reliability
- Supports MacOS and Windows
Specifications
- Chipset
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- JMicron JMS578
- Drive Interface
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- SATA 3.0Gb/s
- Mac OS Compatibility
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- Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.0, Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS 9.2
- Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah, Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- macOS 10.12 Sierra, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, macOS 10.14 Mojave, macOS 10.15 Catalina, macOS 11.x Big Sur, macOS 12.x Monterey, macOS 13.x Ventura
- PC OS Compatibility
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- Windows 98 SE
- Windows 2000
- Windows ME
- Windows XP, Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7 32-bit Edition, Windows 7 64-bit Edition
- Windows 8 32-bit Edition, Windows 8 64-bit Edition
- Windows 8.1 32-bit Edition, Windows 8.1 64-bit Edition
- Windows 10 32-bit Edition, Windows 10 64-bit Edition
- Windows 11
- Host Port Requirements
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- Available USB 3/2.0/1.1 port
- Power Supply
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- Bus-powered (some functionality requires AC adapter, see product notes for details)
- Secondary/replacement power supplies are available
- AC Input
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- 100-240V, 50-60Hz
- DC Output
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- +5V, 2A
- External Power Adapter
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- Yes
- Device Ports
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- 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 micro-B port
- Housing Material
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- Plastic
- Dimensions
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- H: 15 x L: 145 x W: 149 mm
- Weight
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- 282 g
What's in the box?
- 1 x OWC Slim External Optical Drive
- 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
Warranty
- 1 Year Limited Warranty
Part Number
- OWCMR3PDVDR8XT