[jayzee786]

I've been a total melon and not noticed that the Blu Ray drive I bought a few months ago is actually only a reader which it clearly states on the box haha and not a burner.

So currently looking on novatech and amazon etc for cheap blu ray writers. It will be heavily used as a secondary solultion for file backups and mainly for burning media onto.

Here's one I'm looking at right now

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pioneer-BDR-...3963388&sr=1-1

I've recently bought this system from Novatech http://www.****************/pc/range...lifenti29.html will the above drive be compatible with it?

Is the process for the internal drive simply plug in SATA cable boot the drive up and it's done?

[the gold room]

the second link you posted has been censored out for some reason!

[Superwomble]

Ive had this Pioneer drive for a couple of months. I just connected it to a SATA cable as you suggest, and I've burned around 10 Blurays so far without fault using imageburn.

[jayzee786]

Originally Posted by the gold room

the second link you posted has been censored out for some reason!

Just replace the astericks with novatech. DS does that for some reason dunno why.

Ahah that's good to know so Just pop the burner in connect sata and off i go.

Thank you

[noise747]

i got a LG one, about 2 years old now and still working fine, i did have one problem with some disks I got that it would nto write to them, even with a firmware upgrade.

I still got the disks and update the firmware now and again to see if they will work. Xentra or something like that they are. I don't think Lg is producing any more firmware updates for the drive.

i must admit I thought the prices of the drives would have gone down a lot more in two years, but they have not and the disks are still expensive, cheaper than DVD per gigabyte if you are storing data, but still expensive if you putting video ont hem

[neo_wales]

I've got one Sony and two Pioneer but don't think there is much difference in any of them to be honest.

[noise747]

I doubt there is much difference in them to be honest, just make sure they can also record to the DL 50GB disks as some of them could not.
I expect most of them can now, mine had a firmware update for that. Saying that I have not used 50GB disks yet.

[jayzee786]

Originally Posted by noise747

I doubt there is much difference in them to be honest, just make sure they can also record to the DL 50GB disks as some of them could not.
I expect most of them can now, mine had a firmware update for that. Saying that I have not used 50GB disks yet.

Thanks noise will keep that in mind. 50Gig on one disc nice

Will certainly make backups easier hehe

[jayzee786]

Are these the screws that I need to mount the drive with inside the case?

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/23082...var=sbar&cbt=y or http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com.../dp/B00032Q1J4

The product doesn't come with screws unfortunately according to the reviews on multiple sites.

[unique]

Originally Posted by jayzee786

Are these the screws that I need to mount the drive with inside the case?

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/23082...var=sbar&cbt=y or http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com.../dp/B00032Q1J4

The product doesn't come with screws unfortunately according to the reviews on multiple sites.

yeah those will do, or you can probably reuse the screws from the drive you replace. i presume you are taking out a cd or dvd drive and putting this in, so when you take out the old drive, use those screws on the new one

[noise747]

Yeah as unique said.

i expect the drive is a OEM, which is why there are no screws, mine was a retail version.

50Gb is nice, but I have not tried one yet, i have seen 20 of them for £45 from Ebay and found some for just under £60 from Amazon.

so still a bit pricey.

[unique]

just noticed there is a new pio 208 model that's 15x single layer and 14x dual layer, up a bit from 12x on the 207 (both single and dual layer). that explains the minor price drops on the 207

[jayzee786]

Hmm just realised that. My intention was to use both drives. The drive in this computer is brand new It's the one included with the tower in the first link on Novatech.

As the above is the case are there any drives which are blu ray only eg no support for cd and dvd if so would they be cheaper than the one in the link?

[unique]

you can't get drives that write bluray but don't write dvd and cd, but you can get drives that only read bluray but burn dvd and cd (called combo drives)

if you want to put both drives in you could maybe take 2 screws out the old drive and use them on the new one, put one front left and the other back right, or if there are bits to hold the front or back in place put both screws at the other side. 2 screws is usually enough

[Stig]

Originally Posted by jayzee786

I've been a total melon and not noticed that the Blu Ray drive I bought a few months ago is actually only a reader which it clearly states on the box haha and not a burner.

As a sanity check: do you really need a Blu-ray burner? Most people don't, unless they specifically want to burn their own disks from their own HD content.

If you just want backup and storage, hard disks are cheaper and easier.

[noise747]

Originally Posted by Stig

As a sanity check: do you really need a Blu-ray burner? Most people don't, unless they specifically want to burn their own disks from their own HD content.

If you just want backup and storage, hard disks are cheaper and easier.

and more of a pain unless you get a small portable one that don't use mains power. i got 4 external drives and every time I want to use I one I got to muck around with cables. with a disk, i got a index, I know where the one is I require, take it out of the box, slip it in the drive and away I go.

[noise747]

Originally Posted by jayzee786

Hmm just realised that. My intention was to use both drives. The drive in this computer is brand new It's the one included with the tower in the first link on Novatech.

As the above is the case are there any drives which are blu ray only eg no support for cd and dvd if so would they be cheaper than the one in the link?

They all do CD and DVD i doubt a blu-ray one only would be any cheaper.

Easy enough to add a second one anyway, i had a second drive in my machine for a while until i changed the board and my new board got no EIDE as my old DVD writer is EIDE and not sata.

[jayzee786]

Originally Posted by Stig

As a sanity check: do you really need a Blu-ray burner? Most people don't, unless they specifically want to burn their own disks from their own HD content.

If you just want backup and storage, hard disks are cheaper and easier.

I agree with you there but I already have 9 HDD's and my collection of data already totals over 10TB. I have a huge collection of Movies and TV shows in HD (Using netflix/Lovefilm but not everything is available)

Originally Posted by noise747

They all do CD and DVD i doubt a blu-ray one only would be any cheaper.

Easy enough to add a second one anyway, i had a second drive in my machine for a while until i changed the board and my new board got no EIDE as my old DVD writer is EIDE and not sata.

Ahh I see,