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Wich bluerayburner do you recomend?end of 2010

Joel Arvidsson

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Which blueray burners do you recommend? Im planing to buy it in january. It will be used with a mac pro workstation. I don't mind external bd burners or do internal run faster? I have not started my research on bd yet. I thought some one here could point me in some direction. Thanks in advanced. The budget is around
500 euro/750dollar.. something around there.

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Joel Arvidsson
 
Liteon burners have been my goto for years. Cheap and reliable, plus there's a big hacker community to make them region free, tweak burn strategies etc.

You won't need to spend anywhere NEAR that amount to buy one. Current Blu-ray/DVD/CD combo/everything burner goes for around 10,000yen here which is pretty cheap considering.

Go internal, it's much easier to plug into a SATA port and forget about it.

HTH

Paul
 
LiteOn are good. I would also recommend the LG units. I have an LG in one of my Mac Pro towers as well as a PC. I have another PC with a LiteOn unit.

Don't have model numbers off the top of my head or available to me at the moment. But they don't have many to choose from anyway and they're all relatively inexpensive. When I get a new Mac tower, one of the first things I do is replace the "SuperDrive" since they're very problematic with dual-layer DVD media and don't do Blu-Ray. To use one internally in the Mac Pro, you will need to pop the cover portion off the front of the tray. With both the LG and the LiteOn, it takes about a minute to do this using a couple small slotted screwdrivers or other small flat prying tools to push tabs out of the way.

If you go external, there are some great enclosures out there that you can install a burner into. I prefer this instead of buying an external unit. It's typically cheaper and gives me more connection options. Bytecc has an excellent external enclosure that has FW800, USB2 and eSATA interfaces. I think they have a new one coming out that is the same but with USB3. SATA will obviously be the best here as it's the native interface of the drive. If you go internal, it's a simple hook-up on '09 and later Mac Pro systems. On '08 Mac Pros, you need to run a SATA cable up to the drive from either the ODD_1 or ODD_2 SATA header on the logic board. If you're on an '06/'07 Mac Pro, you will want to hunt down an EIDE/ATA interface burner or will need a SATA card or a SATA to IDE inline adapter.
 
I have an 06/07 macpro and it sounds like its alot of hassle. I have an sata card for the caldigit raid but I think its only ports on the outside of the box. Good tip about those enclosures! Seems like blueray burners are cheap now=). So Lg or LiteOn. Liteon seems to write little faster.
 
Go with the new Pioneer BDR-206. Last year's model, the BDR-205, was the best reviewed Blu-ray burner by Club MyCE. The new model is basically the same; it's slightly cheaper because some of the parts were changed to manufacturer it more cheaply.
 
Pioneer BDR-206 looks interesting. The only negative I read was:
"We have only found one negative with this drive, the drive does not support Bitsetting on +R Media."

I had to read some about the Bitsetting. And this was the best explanation.

"I guess you could say -R "has bitsetting built in", but to attempt to explain it further... -R media has a section of it that is permanently written to define itself as -R media. This same area on +R media is blank (purposely done so) so the user can define it as whatever you want..(ex. -R, +R, DVD-ROM) with bitsetting. The booktype of -R media cannot be changed."

I guess bitsetting have played out its rule since most dvd players support both now days.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
If you go external, there are some great enclosures out there that you can install a burner into. I prefer this instead of buying an external unit. It's typically cheaper and gives me more connection options. Bytecc has an excellent external enclosure that has FW800, USB2 and eSATA interfaces. I think they have a new one coming out that is the same but with USB3. SATA will obviously be the best here as it's the native interface of the drive.
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This is interesting. I borrowed a Lg BD burner a couple of days but it only have usb if I remember correctly. So your suggestion sounds more interesting. Was it the ME-535Limited-BK with the
SATA to USB 2.0 + Firewire 400+Firewire 800 +e-SATA you mean?
The price is around $75. Could not find any resellers in europe thou but I guess alot of the resellers ship global. Is it any reseller in the list you can recomend?

This was the one I checked out.
http://www.byteccusa.com/product/enclosure/ME-535X/ME-535x.htm
 
+1 on the LG, got my external one for my Mac from OWC. Works like a champ, little weird on the fw800, since BD isn't completely supported on OSX. It works with encore and toast no problem though but if you leave a blank blu ray in there for too long, it keeps mounting the disk to no end, and you end up with a billion disc icons on your desktop. so I generally pop in the disc right before I burn anything.

It's serving as my primary optical drive now. I took my internal one out to run a boot drive, and a 5 drive soft raid. It's loud though, has a full fan on the back.
 
Joel Arvidsson said:
Pioneer BDR-206 looks interesting. The only negative I read was:
"We have only found one negative with this drive, the drive does not support Bitsetting on +R Media."

I had to read some about the Bitsetting. And this was the best explanation.

"I guess you could say -R "has bitsetting built in", but to attempt to explain it further... -R media has a section of it that is permanently written to define itself as -R media. This same area on +R media is blank (purposely done so) so the user can define it as whatever you want..(ex. -R, +R, DVD-ROM) with bitsetting. The booktype of -R media cannot be changed."

I guess bitsetting have played out its rule since most dvd players support both now days.
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I'm planning to get a few of the Pioneers for my newer towers.

I can't seem to find older IDE versions anymore for the old towers though.
Can anyone chime in about IDE BluRay burners that are still available ?
 
Maciej Roszkowski said:
I'm planning to get a few of the Pioneers for my newer towers.

I can't seem to find older IDE versions anymore for the old towers though.
Can anyone chime in about IDE BluRay burners that are still available ?
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There were one or two IDE read-only drives back in the day. Never seen a burner with IDE. If you really need it that badly, you can just toss a bridge between the drive and the board and call it even.
 
Another vote for Liteon. Been using them since CD burners were 12x and never had a failure. They are the OEM for a lot of the branded names anyway.
 
How much do you pay for your discs? 25 and 50gig and does any had any problem to burn fullspeed of there burners. Some disc say 2x speed. This is the same on dvd but I have never noticed any problem with dvd. But maby some here have.
 
I stick with the verbatim, white inkjet printable 25 gb. haven't needed the 50 gb yet...you can fit a 2 hour feature on 25 gb. I can only seeing using 50 gb you have more than a 2 hour feature, your disc is loaded with specials like BTS, and other goodies, and full 5.1 or more surround sound uncompressed....
 
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