Re: Recommendations for external DVD-ROM drive?

"Mike Brown [email protected] [EAC]" <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Oct 2020 11:06:50 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.eac.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:49:15AM +0200, [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> My old LG finally called it quits so I'm in the market for a new
> external DVD-ROM drive. Requirements:
> 
> * Accurate/secure ripping with EAC (well, duh ;-))
> * Occasionally DVD burning with ImgBurn
> * Occasionally DVD ripping with DVD Shrink
> * Preferably tray-loading mechanism (as opposed to top-loading)
> 
> A superficial Google Search seemed to indicate that it doesn't really
> matter much nowadays: optical drives are kind of "old tech" and any
> well-known brand will do. True, or does anyone here have different
> experiences?

DVD? Really?  How about joining the 21st century and getting a Blu-ray
drive?  You can get a lot more data on a 25GB BD disc.  BD discs are very
cheap.  You'll pay less for one BD disc than the number of DVDs to store
the same amount of data.

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