Blu Ray Rom

[Hemps]

I'm looking to install a Blu Ray rom in my HTPC for Blu Ray playback.

Anybody recommend a decent brand etc for this.

Is this any good?

http://www.wantitall.co.za/PC-Hardw...TA-Internal-Optical-Drive-iHOS104__B002EE996Q

Lite-on 4x read speed, will this be fine for copying blu ray's as well or should I get the fastest speed possible which is 8x for R1300+

 

[PhreeMe]

Yeah I got the Liteon and its working great so far!! Had it about a year now....

 

[Hemps]

How long does it take to copy a blu ray movie as example?

 

[PhreeMe]

Honestly couldnt tell you.... Thats one thing I havent tried yet. If I recall, it takes a few hours?

 

[cybershark]

How long does it take to copy a blu ray movie as example?

I have the 8X one and it takes me 30-40 minutes to copy a Blu-ray to HDD with AnyDVD.

 

[DarkWhisperer]

Well, according to Wikipedia, "For Blu-ray drive base speed (or 1x) is 6.74 MB/s". So 4x gets you 26.96 MB/s. But you'll only get 4x on the very outer edge of the disc. Reading from the center of the disc will be much slower. Hence, optimistically, you'll get about 1x for each quarter of the disc. Lets use a full dual-layer bluray disc (50GB) for our (worst case) sample.

1st quarter => 12.5GB @ 1x => 12800MB @ 6.74 MB/s => 1900s => 31m40s.
2nd quarter => 12.5GB @ 2x => 12800MB @ 13.48 MB/s => 950s => 15m50s.
3rd quarter => 12.5GB @ 3x => 12800MB @ 20.22 MB/s => 633s => 10m33s.
4th quarter => 12.5GB @ 4x => 12800MB @ 26.96 MB/s => 474s => 9m54s.

So total time = 3957s => 65m57s.

So you're looking in the region of 1-1.5 hours. In reality, it could be as much as 3-4 hours (our 1x for each quarter is very optimistic).

Cheers!