If you didn't buy a Blu-Ray drive to rip things before 2024/2025, you fucked up. Prices have gone up 200%, the end of production is here, and you will no longer own this for anything less than 200 dollars if you can find it in stock.
>>107880712that's why I bought a spare last year when ASUS announced end of production
>>107881000>implying they didn't patch the firmware flashing in later production models
>he thinks 200$ is an obscene amount of moneyoh thirdie
>>107880712sudo make clean my toilet, Pawełp.s. jebać POPiS i białka
>>107881053Yes, that's like an entire month pension's worth and you have to allocate that for bills and food. 90 days of gas here is like $1300.
>>107881384re-industrialize my nigga. get out of your commie block apartment and make something
I've had mine since like 2016
>>107880712>200 dollars if you can find it in stock.Lol what? What shit are you buying. Good drives like anon's here >>107881833 that accept custom firmware were already 200+ years ago.
There was a time when I wanted to use BDs to make backups, but it's just not economically viable. M-discs are ridiculously expensive. a 25-pack of 100gb M-discs will set you back 250 dollars. Meanwhile you can get that kind of storage space from an HDD for basically 1/10th the cost. And HDDs are more readily usable by all kinds of devices rather than just those with BD drives, plus being rewritable, and not having to worry about fucked up burns turning your expensive ass M-discs into coasters. >but HDDs are more fragileYeah, but with that kind of price discrepancy I can buy several times as many HDDs and keep them as redundant backups and still come nowhere near the cost of M-discsIt's a shame because I WANT to like the idea of using optical media as mass storage but it's just not viable.
>>107880712Have a 4000 disk physical library with everything anone ever cared about on it on. Cost peanuts because a few years ago no one wanted physical media and it was being sold by the 20KG still shrinkwrapped by retailers clearing stock for cents per KG. Have every movies and TV show worth a fuck in the last 100 years and have a stack of players and drives but you're not wrong about what's happening now and it was inevitable.
>>107881883I have a stock of everything from DVDs to CDs even floppies to an LTO on my SAN. The time to do this shit was six/seven years ago. You're LATE.
My VAIO has a Blu-ray reader
>>107881833This is the only BD writer worth owning in this thread so far
>>107881037all versons are flashable
>>107881866BW-16D1HT from the OPs listing can be flashed to a libredrive compatible firmware no matter what firmware version it shipped with.
>>107881866Firmware lockouts don't matter anymore, as long as the hardware is right, you can flash it.
>>107881971Keep going anon, get your shit sorted. You are on the right track. It's going to be grim for those that never bothered.
>>107881936I was buying new old stock CD-Rs and DVD-Rs years back when I could get a 100 pack for $5 - $10. I have thousands.
>>107880712Samsung stopped making reader mechanisms a couple years ago, they were the last company to make them. But Sony and Toshiba both still make burner mechanisms.
