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External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:50 am
by robinhood1701
PC unfortunatly just died, it's old so thought I might get an i5 laptop, but I have a newish Pioneer Blu Ray burner that I still need to use, can anyone recommend a good USB 2 caddy pls ?

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:20 pm
by Ian
Something like this would probably work fine.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817392021

Keep in mind that USB 2.0 can't handle BD read/write speeds higher than 8x. If you need this, look into eSATA, FireWire 800 or USB 3.0.

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:42 pm
by robinhood1701
Thanks Ian, the Pioneer is sata, and the laptop I've seen has only USB 2,
Thanks for the link, I'll keep looking,
If anyone knows any laptop with e ata ?

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:18 pm
by Ian
You'd probably have a better chance of finding a laptop with FireWire than eSATA.

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:45 pm
by robinhood1701
Just re-checked, only USB 2, if USB can only handle read/write up to 8X, how long would that to rip a Blu Ray disc ?

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:23 am
by Ian
Most, if it not all, Blu-ray drives have a maximum read speed of 8x so it should not have any effect on the time to rip a disc.

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:48 am
by robinhood1701
OK, good, my old PC, a 3.2 Intel Prescott, took about 8 hours to rip a BD once, hoping for better with a i5 6GB RAM, laptop.

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:21 pm
by SithTracy
If you are reading from an ODD don't expect much of an improvement. You're going to rip at the rate of the drive. If you take that data and rip to a Matroska or something, then you will see a huge benefit. I'm impressed with my i7-2600K and my Sandy Bridge based MacBook in that regard.

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:58 am
by robinhood1701
So ripping to a Matroska or similar, will shorten the ripping time of a BD disc considerably ?
Compared to normal Blu ray or DVD files ?

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:20 am
by Ian
robinhood1701 wrote:So ripping to a Matroska or similar, will shorten the ripping time of a BD disc considerably ?


Nope. Just smaller file sizes.

Re: External Blu Ray Drive Caddy ?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:41 am
by robinhood1701
Hmmmm....
Now I'm just working with a 640GB HDD on laptop, that'll help, I'll have to sort out an enclosure, Vantec are hard to come by in UK, looks like an overnight session with a deskfan, to rip a BD.