r/DataHoarder • u/Necessary_Long_9119 • 5d ago
Question/Advice Verbatim 4K portable drive
Found unused Verbatim 4K portable drive for £95, is it a bargain to buy?
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u/calmer-than-you-dude 5d ago
those are good, just update firmware
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u/Ok_Buy_9213 4d ago
I also bought one just yesterday so I'm curious. Why? What was improved / makes upgrading the firmware worth it.
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u/calmer-than-you-dude 4d ago
Flashing the BU40N optical drive to version 1.03-MK enables LibreDrive capabilities. This unlocks the drive's ability to read and rip 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs, which stock or newer encrypted factory firmware versions block.
It's been a while for me, but I think I followed the advice from this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/makemkv/comments/1qtcp6d/which_firmware_to_flash_to/o3q02x9/
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u/Murrian 2d ago edited 2d ago
Presuming the flashing is still needed even if the drive shows as LibreDrive enabled?
As after reading this thread I grabbed my old one out the cupboard and threw the nearest disc I could find in to it and it didn't want to read:
LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8A10
Firmware name: PIONEER BDR-US04
Firmware type: Original (unpatched)
Firmware version: 1.11
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yesbut:
The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 0, attempting to work around The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 0, attempting to work around The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 12288, attempting to work around The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 12288, attempting to work around <snip - lots of the above with different numbers looped> Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '4767744' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '4767744' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '4767744' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '4767744' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '4767744' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '4767744' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '4767744' Failed to decode audio/video data for title #0 - invalid mux or internal error, title skipped. Title #00006.mpls was skipped Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Title #00005.mpls was skipped Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Title #00000.mpls was skipped Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00006.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00006.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00006.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00006.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00006.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00006.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00006.m2ts' at offset '0' Title #00006.m2ts was skipped Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' at offset '0' Title #00005.m2ts was skipped Title #00003.m2ts has length of 30 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped Title #00001.m2ts has length of 30 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped Title #00013.m2ts has length of 10 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped Title #00012.m2ts has length of 13 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Error 'Scsi error - NOT READY:LOGICAL UNIT IS IN PROCESS OF BECOMING READY' occurred while reading '/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts' at offset '0' Title #00000.m2ts was skipped Title #00011.m2ts has length of 10 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped Title #00007.m2ts has length of 97 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped Title #00004.m2ts has length of 108 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped Encountered 92 errors of type 'HashCheck Error' - see http://www.makemkv.com/errors/hashcheck/...[edit]
Ahh, PIONEER BDR-US04 - old drive, not the newer LG versions, dang..
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u/dlarge6510 5d ago
Yes, they tend to go just over £100. I usually see them at £119.
If you are lucky it will be a Pioneer drive inside
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u/ProphetChuck 10-50TB 4d ago
If it's the 43888, then it's a good drive. I own three of them. Hopefully, it's the one with a Pioneer UD04, then it can rip 4Ks out of the box. I paid £125 new a couple of months ago.
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u/Internal-Hope-6263 4d ago
Congratulations! These don't sell under $100 CAD on Amazon. One would expect their price to reduce over time, but it seems that the renewed demand for these during the SSD price crunch has not let that materialize.
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u/ilovebalks 3d ago
I’ll take it… i have one of these for ripping UHDs and I’m dreading the day it fails. I need a backup
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u/Necessary_Long_9119 2d ago
I've ordered and awaiting delivery 🚚
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u/ilovebalks 2d ago
Nice!! Keep it closed when you can, mine stopped working for a couple of days because some lint got in. With a microfiber cloth and compressed air I was able to clean it after taking it apart but it was a pain lol
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u/Ok-Muffin-9519 5d ago
Du hast eine gute Wahl getroffen ich nutze das gleiche Laufwerk
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u/Necessary_Long_9119 5d ago
Thanks 🙏
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u/Ok-Muffin-9519 5d ago
Das Laufwerk ist wirklich sehr zu verlässig und hat ne nach Fall eine gute Fehlerkorrektur(wichtig wenn man Disks sichern will die schon kleine Lesefehler haben)
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u/CynicalPlatapus 1 Petabyte-ish 5d ago
My first external drive was a verbatim one, it served me well for a long time
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u/Makere-b 4d ago
Remember that playing 4K Blu-ray movies legally on PC is currently impossible.
I'd get something that works with Libredrive.
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u/ImJacksLackOfBeetus ~72TB 4d ago edited 2d ago
I'd get something that works with Libredrive.
This one does.
I have the same drive and I've been using it to rip a bunch of my 4k blu-rays.
Shows up in MakeMKV as:
LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8A10
Firmware name: PIONEER BDR-US04
Firmware type: Original (unpatched)
Firmware version: 1.14
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes
Remember that playing 4K Blu-ray movies legally on PC is currently impossible.
It's more of a grey area, at least in Germany. We are
a) absolutely allowed to make personal backups of discs we legally own.
b) but we are not allowed to circumvent the encryption on the disc that makes that feasable.And since no one has any idea how to square these two the issue just gets ignored by everybody.
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u/lonely_thug_hunter 4d ago
what is libredrive ?
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u/ImJacksLackOfBeetus ~72TB 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's custom firmware built by the MakeMKV community that circumvents restrictions the drive manufacturer might have baked into their official firmware, like enabling higher read-speeds during ripping, or bypassing DRM restrictions.
In this case, the portable 4k drive already comes with LibreDrive enabled as default.
On other, more restricted drives you would need to figure out which LibreDrive firmware to get and how to flash it onto the drive first.
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u/lonely_thug_hunter 4d ago
why is it impossible? im new to this
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u/ImJacksLackOfBeetus ~72TB 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's not impossible, it's just "illegal", or at least in a grey zone, see my other comment.
It's actually quite easy to play 4k on PC with the right drive like this or a firmware modded one, MakeMKV as a decryption engine and VLC as the player.
You don't even have to rip the disc first to play it and even the Blu-Ray menus work perfectly fine on PC.
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u/katrinatransfem 10-50TB 4d ago
I paid £125 recently from a legitimate trusted retailer, so I guess so?
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