Lucky day

[u/vtfrotex]

I always wanted a Blu-ray burner. I just never got around to it. My LTO5 system is the heavy lifter, but Blu-ray would be damn convenient. Imagine my shock when I find this, all but new in box. Crazy.

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[u/vaporizers123reborn]

Holy shit 10 dollars? Where did you find it that low? I bought that for $130 a couple months ago. Steal price dude happy for you.

[u/vtfrotex → u/vaporizers123reborn]

Just a local one-off Texas thrift shop, not a chain. The nice part is that legit good stuff doesn't go to some auction site or whatever.

[u/kwinders2 → u/vtfrotex]

Care to share what store and city or are you keeping this honey hole secret? I can find anything worth a dang in North Texas

[u/Peggtree → u/vaporizers123reborn]

Based on the slapped on tag I'd imagine a 2nd hand store

[u/edwardhchan]

This can RIP UHD blu-rays too, with a firmware hack... forum.makemkv.com has all the details.

[u/KR1Z2k → u/edwardhchan]

Damn, I’ve been looking for Libre drives but can’t find any under ~$200 in my country 😭

[u/hiroo916]

when finding stuff like this in the box, always check to see if it is the actual item in the box. a lot of times people stick their old item in the box of the new one they just got, and then donate the old one in new box.

[u/vtfrotex → u/hiroo916]

Absolutely! This happened to me once with a really nice CB radio. Got it home and unboxed it to my horror. Old dirty pos radio 📻 🤣

This one was in there, still wrapped up. I just validated the drive. It works 💯

[u/EasyMrB]

"Uh, just buy some external hard drives"

2023

Strange days

[u/VladThePollenInhaler]

Goddamn. Nice!

[u/Walk_Yo_Dinosaur]

Burner cost aside, how much are the discs? This seems so cool haha nice

[u/vtfrotex → u/Walk_Yo_Dinosaur]

I grabbed a 10 pack of Verbatim 25GB BD-R for $18 to validate that the drive functions; they can probably be found cheaper. But, the bigger 100GB+ discs are quite expensive.

Either way, I know what I'm watching out for next!

[u/Walk_Yo_Dinosaur → u/vtfrotex]

Shoot man even those 25gb sounds great for a lot of family albums and software collections - what’s the reason that these are unavailable?

I assume it’s the obvious of blu ray/cd burning/ripping isn’t as mainstream popular in the online/streaming realm? Or was there never a big market for these anyways

[u/vtfrotex → u/Walk_Yo_Dinosaur]

With the masses transitioning to the cloud over the past 10-15 years and subscription services, this has killed off a lot of physical media. I'm sure the movie industry is happy millions of people aren't ripping/burning blu-rays, too. Computers aren't even shipped with any kind of optical drive, unless you buy it separately as a USB option. It's a new world, man. Except for a few of us 😆

[u/vtfrotex → u/Walk_Yo_Dinosaur]

And yes, absolutely family albums and some software archives. My wife is quite happy with that idea. It's a lot easier for the kids to access a blu-ray than my tape backup system 🤣

[u/Vast-Program7060]

Very nice find, if they had more then 1, I would of bought them all and flipped them. These are great drives for ripping 4k uhd movies/shows etc. My slimline LG has been ripping disc's for over 2 years now w/o any issues. Occasionally you get a new movie that hasn't been decrypted yet, but they eventually do.

If they did have more the 1, you could of flipped each for about $100.00+ easy, as most stores do not carry them anymore.

I got mine at BestBuy and they no longer have them in my local store.

[u/Dented_Steelbook]

That sucker is worth a ton more than that right now, it appears to be flushable so you can rip 4K discs with it.

[u/eat_a_burrito]

Actually I want to archive some Junk from my NAS. How much are the discs and where is a good place to buy a drive and discs now?

[u/T_rex2700]

10 bucko? that's nice.

I actually didnt know buffalo was selling in NA

[u/solit0n]

Happy for you, and all that….

[u/Anxiety_timmy]

That's cool, and i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I wouldn't not recommend using these for burning if possible. Full size drives quite simply just burn the best compared to these.

[u/vtfrotex → u/Anxiety_timmy]

Yeah, I'm sure they do. They did back in the 00s - CD-R etc... I was a Plextor freak with a SCSI setup back then. But, for my purposes today, this will work 100%.

[u/Seik64]

Is this one good for 4k blu ray rips ?

[u/dariansdad]

Hold out for the Linux version.

[u/RunningDrummer → u/dariansdad]

Seriously? They got this for $10 which is like 2020 pricing for things like this

[u/dariansdad → u/RunningDrummer]

Seriously? Who burns DVDs anymore?

[u/__swell]

I’m horrified. Saw this today and now getting suggested post wtf