The Mercury Pro External USB 3.0 16x Blu-Ray Reader/Writer from OWC / Other World Computing features a USB 3.0 (3.2 Gen 1/3.1 Gen 1) interface and can be used with Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. The plug-and-play optical drive requires no special drivers for use and supports writing to Blu-ray and DVD media at speeds at up to 16x and CDs at up to 48x, while also supporting the reading of Blu-ray media at speeds up to 8x, DVD media at speeds up to 12x, and CDs at speeds up to 48x. It also supports a wide range of disc capacities, including single (25GB), double (50GB), triple (100GB), and quad layer/BDXL (128GB) Blu-ray media, single (4.7GB) and dual layer (8.4GB) DVD media, and CD media up to 700MB, or 79 minutes of audio. This optical drive also supports M-DISC media and its 4MB buffer helps to ensure uninterrupted disc burning sessions.