Blu-Ray Recommendation

[jlpierce]

Hello everyone!

I am looking to purchase an External Blu-Ray burner and was looking for some possible recommendations.

I have looked at this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827249077.

I really want one that is E-SATA, as every laptop we have has an E-SATA port onboard, I would like to take advantage of that feature.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[sonoran]

Can't give any positive recommendations but there are definitely some things to watch out for:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=281594
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=281502

[jlpierce]

Thanks for that bit of information, certainly some things I want to watch out for.

[droidhacker]

You'll want one of these;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817392031

And then just pick your favorite SATA BD drive.

[george_toolan]

For recording speeds higher than 4x BDR you would need USB 3.0 instead of USB 2.0 ;-)

[jlpierce]

Thanks for all of the information. I am planning on using it on the E-SATA bus, that should be better than the USB either 2 or 3 correct?

[droidhacker]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

For recording speeds higher than 4x BDR you would need USB 3.0 instead of USB 2.0 ;-)

What he said right above. The requirement was eSATA, the enclosure I suggested just happens to ALSO have a USB2 in case of emergency.

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Originally Posted by jlpierce

Thanks for all of the information. I am planning on using it on the E-SATA bus, that should be better than the USB either 2 or 3 correct?

Not quite.
It really depends on SATA-x.
SATA-1 is 1.5 Gb/s
SATA-2 is 3.0 Gb/s
SATA-3 is 6.0 Gb/s

Note: BD-1x is 32 Mb/s, so 12x is 432 Mb/s.
USB2 peaks at 480 Mb/s, not counting overhead, so this would be slim for 12x BD writing. It should work better than 4x though.... which would only be 128 Mb/s.

With eSATA 1.5 Gb/s on the enclosure, there is plenty of room for maximum speed BD read/write.