Blu-ray burner for U52F-BBL9

I just got the U52F-BBL9 couple of days ago, it didn't come with blu-ray drive.
Since I am in the market for a blu-ray burner, and looking at this external drive
Newegg.com - ASUS Black 6X BD-R 2X BD-RE 8X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 6X BD-ROM 8MB Cache USB 2.0 External Blu-ray Burner SBW-06C1S-U/BLK/G/AS
But I think I will use this new laptop for all my burning needs, why not get an internal drive for this laptop.
Anyone have an idea of what form/model will compatible with this U52F?
Thanks

 

No worries about the form factor or model, all internal optical drives are usually made with the same factor. All you'll need to do is make sure you swap the bracket from your current drive to the new one, and the face plate too.

Check out this link and see if any of these burners work for you.

 

Really, I didn't know that. This is also mean I can swap my blu ray drive from my Samsung R580 to this new Asus with changing the bracket? I will definitely try it tonight.
If this work, I probably stick to the external one above so I can have flexibility to burn at which ever machine I wish.
Thanks for the tip Sir.

 

No problem! Just watch out for that faceplate, it can be a little tricky to get off without breaking the tabs!

Also, you may wanna make sure they're both SATA, but I guess that goes without saying.

 

just finished swapped the drive, took about 30 minutes for the first time.
You are right about little tricky to take the faceplate out of the drive.
One note for someone else who want to do it is before turn off your computer, hit the eject so the tray popped out. You will need the tray to pop out in order to take the faceplate off.
If you get a very small flat screw driver, depress the tab ON THE RIGHT SIDE first....my orientation is as follow laser reader face down, sata connector facing my body, and work from the right tab first......everything start to falling off by itself. I reverted the order when reinstall.

Again, thank you J.P@XoticPC, without your suggestion I would never thought most of the drive are in same form factor.

 

Actually, there are different size optical drives - 9.5mm and 12.7mm. Luckily you had one that uses the same height.

 

Yes, but most of those 9.5mm drives are for thin, light, slot loading machines like Macbook Pros. A few PC laptops use them but the vast majority use 12.7mm

I was actually annoyed to see the Alienware systems were slot load and all my spare tray loading Blu-ray drives would be useless working with them.

Cheers,

 

I think there's more than you'd think. Just off the top of my head are Lenovo T400/410/500 W500/700 series, Dell Latitude E6400 and Precision M2400 also uses the 9.5mm drives. AFAIK, non are slot-loading drives either.

 

Fascinating, you have a point. Other than Mac laptops I only deal with ASUS and HP PC laptops that are 16" or 17" models since gaming or virtualization are my only use for Windows. This larger models would typically not use the more expensive 9.5mm laptop optical drives so I suppose I really don't come across them personally or at work since my peers tend to use larger, more powerful laptops.

Given these 9.5mm drives are becoming a bit more prevalent it would be nice for someone to come up with a slot-loading BD-ROM combo drive at a decent price.

Cheers,

 

Yeah, I had to find out the hard way when I had my Dell M2400. Wanted to upgrade the optical drive to a blu-ray burner and found out it uses the 9.5mm drives which at that time was about $500-$600 for a new one. At the end I purchase a used one that's made for the Lenovo T series for $400 and it still wasn't entirely compatible. I had to disassemble the drive and swap the covers, bracket and faceplate. Was kind of a pain in the rear, but it worked out eventually

 

Good to know, and duly noted.