A:Answer The short answer is yes, you can use the LG - 8x External USB Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive, Model # SP80NB80, but there will be major limitations. Chromebooks can read CD, CD-RW, DVD, and DVD-RW, discs using a proper external USB DVD/CD drive. hrome OS can read files on these disks if they are a supported file formats. This means you can easily open image or audio files in ChromeOS from files on a CD or DVD but it doesnot have the necessary codecs to play DVD files. You can connect a CD or DVD player on a Chromebook and use it read read data files if you have a disk written in data format. You cannot play an audio CD or a movie on a DVD or Blu-ray and you cannot write anything to a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disk. Chrome OS does not support optical disks to let you play music or movies. The primary reason for this is that Chrome OS doesn’t come with codecs. Codecs are necessary to compress and decompress large files like DVD videos. If you want to play DVDs on your Chromebook, you’ll need to install Linux. External DVD drives aren’t officially supported on Chrome OS. ^Daphane
