Bluray drive worth it?

Where can I purchase one that will work on the m17x R1?
Link also would be great!

I have tons of data to back up, and its pain to just be backing it up onto 4gb dvd. It would be more convenient to backup large amounts of data onto the bluray disc.

What do you guys think, and again a link to the drive would be nice!

 

I think you should get a Hard Drive for backup. Blu-ray media is expensive...

 

alright thank you!

 

For backup no for movies yes!!

 

The R1 DVD+/-RW can also burn to the dual layered 8.5GB DVD discs if that is any help. Also changing the disc drive means dismantling alot of the laptop I believe, although I have not looked into this in any great detail.

 

oh yeah? What if we suffer a massive EMP shock? All our data on hard drives would be useless.............. and we would have to resort to disc media to recover our losses!



just kidding though, odds are slim that will happen anyway. You're best bet is an Esata external hard drive since they typically have the fastest write speed vs USB 3.0 usually has the faster read speed, you pick for yourself.

 

I dont agree with this. I think blurays are good for back up. If they are stored properly there is lower chance of data corruption over a hard drive.

Also the price has gone down to where they are not that bad for a spindle.
I just picked up 30 for $40, which is about the cost of a high end DVD+R DL.

 

Given the high cost of an internal Blu ray burner (and I don't even know if a laptop model exists, I only know of Blu ray player/DVD burners), a external hard drive looks a lot better. You can easily get an external HD in the 1tb range for under $100, a burner will cost more plus media.

 

I picked up a tray loading BD-RE for under $90 a few months back. Not sure about the slot load versions used on the AW.

Cheers,

 

I picked up a slot loading blu-ray drive from a fleabay dealer in Hong Kong for $70 which included shipping. Its a BDROM/DVD R/W drive from lite-on. Great drive. He also listed several blu-ray burners for around $120 from Panasonic, Sony and Samsung. Inventory changes so keep checking. User ID is Drive-of-life. It took about two weeks to get my purchase after ordering.

 

Yes worth it.

Once it it is fitted then you have no need to want it any longer

Just get it, you will be happy in the long run. By the way movies look massive good on the LCD panel.

 

They look better on a real home theater.


If its cheap enough, I'd probably get it too...

 

Ok I've been through the whole Blu ray thing, and was one of the first and early adopters of Blu Ray (I mean I had the first Burner, out when the XPS m1710 was out) I even own a total of 120 Blu Ray Films. And let me be the first to tell you that it was ALL A HUGE MISTAKE....

I don't wanna talk too much about illegal activities but I'll at least say that you can save bundles by just downloading your content or streaming it via NetFlix or now HBO GO (Which I both have, and are immensely cheaper then buying blu ray films) There is also something call MKV files, which you can google on your own.

moving on to the backup stage or portion, it is a BAD IDEA to backup to Blu Ray, in fact I will be the first to say that it is both non cost effective and Slow to do this. You are so much better off going out to the store and buying a Seagate External Drive with the ESATA connection. (It moves 10 gigs in about a min or 2) You will NEVER burn 10 gigs in a min or two on a blu ray anything. The costs of RE blu ray disks are through the roof. The problem is too many people keep noting the cost of R disks coming down, but who wants a single burn? I've made about a dozen 25 gig single burns and guess what? IT WASN'T WORTH IT.... The only thing I use my blu ray player for these days is to watch my 120 disk collection which I regret having, don't make the same mistake as me. Any further questions regarding this PM me.

 

Quality > Quantity

Watching movies like: Inception, The Dark Knight, Superman Returns, Matrix, Iron Man, etc are much better on Blu-Ray with a true home theater.

On a laptop...you just might be right.

 

you didn't look up MKV files like I had originally posted, I have plenty of films in 1080 and in 720 and in 5.1 as the files range from 6 gigs to 10 gigs per movie. Do I really have to screen shot this for you? With my stuff you will never tell the difference and I have a home theater in my household to display this as well running off a local home network = 1000 times easier and better then using blu ray disks.

 

Alright here, you beckon to question quality? Granted I'm opening Ripped files from a Blu Ray disk but they are stored and accessed on a local HDD as you will see on the next screen shot

This is just on my local drive, I have plenty more on my external drives, which film do you question the quality on? I'll gladly throw up a screen shot for you.

 

^We have strayed off topic, and I wouldn't suggest posting your downloaded movies on the Internet....

Going from a Blu-Ray with uncompressed video and audio (PCM Audio) to a 10-15GB mkv, you are still losing quality.

Of course, if you don't have the equipment to take advantage of the higher quality audio and video, then it doesn't matter.

 

Well I can certainly understand darkloki's frustration with blu ray in general.

I have at least 40 blu ray movies and the hoops you have to jump through just to play a movie you paid a lot of money can throw me into a homicidal rage.

Examples are avatar directors cut not working at all.
Aliens quadrilogy not displaying correctly over hdmi
No hdmi sound from my m17x r1.
Constantly having to update to non existant firmware
Power dvd only updating the latest version with newer movies generally not working on older versions
Bd burner not recognising blank bd disks.

I could go on but you get the idea. There's nothing worse than buying movies that don't work

 

^Yeah, that seems like a major pain. All the more reason I suggested in post #2 not to go Blu-Ray...