Is This The Best Internal Blue-Ray For Mac Pro?

[IvanB]

The following company claims to offer an internal BR burner for Mac Pro, which is compatible with Final Cut (it looks good).

http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/

Has anybody had any experience with this BR drive or is purchasing an external burner still the best approach? If so, which one do folks recommend?

Thanks

 

[Gymnut]

It's a little pricey and I have to wonder whether it's a repurposed Pioneer BDR-205, although I do see it has Lightscribe capabilities, so maybe not. I've got a Pioneer BDR-205 and it's also a 12x Blu-Ray burner(although I believe the fastest BD-R's are only 4x); You can find it for $150, although for as long as I've had it(almost a year now) I've had to run a script to prevent it from not being recognized by Mac OSX after the computer has gone to sleep. It's a well documented problem, although I'm not sure whether the firmware updates have fixed this(update has to be done in Windows).

I've heard the LG Blu-Ray drives don't have this problem, although I think they only top out at 8x speed for Blu-Rays(not so much of a problem when you're still limited by the available disc speeds).

 

[jared_kipe]

Kinda expensive..
I have the predecessor to this drive $99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136181


The WH08LS20 and it works great! I've never had a bad burn, though I've only burned a few blurays, mostly CD's and DVDs. I would ASSUME that the WH10LS30 is better/faster/cheaper than my drive was a year ago.

 

[michaeljthom]

Kinda expensive..
I have the predecessor to this drive $99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136181


The WH08LS20 and it works great! I've never had a bad burn, though I've only burned a few blurays, mostly CD's and DVDs. I would ASSUME that the WH10LS30 is better/faster/cheaper than my drive was a year ago.

What OS version are you using this with? I'm trying to use it (well, the WH10 version) in 10.5.8, and every time I try to burn an img to it (for BD-R), it tells me there isn't enough space on the disc. (It's a brand new, 25GB Single-Layer BD-R disc, and it's a 4GB img file -- a 10-minute HD movie.)

Any thoughts?

 

[IvanB]

So I wonder if most video editors are mostly relying on an external BR burner for now until we have a reliable internal drive? I'm leaning towards an external BR burner for now....I think....

 

[wonderspark]

I have the LG WH10LS30 installed in my '09 Mac Pro, and it burns BD-Rs perfectly. I recall that when I first installed it, I could hear what sounded like the drive trying to access a disc every now and then, but it stopped a day or so later, and has since been silent. I've burned Blu-Ray discs and played them in Blu-Ray players, and it works perfectly! I couldn't be happier, myself.

 

[jmr]

Lg wj10ls30 is there a solution 'not enough space?'

I have the LG WH10LS30 installed in my '09 Mac Pro, and it burns BD-Rs perfectly. I recall that when I first installed it, I could hear what sounded like the drive trying to access a disc every now and then, but it stopped a day or so later, and has since been silent. I've burned Blu-Ray discs and played them in Blu-Ray players, and it works perfectly! I couldn't be happier, myself.

Wonderspark, Can you burn using Disc Utility? I cannot. I can burn BD-R's using Share, and make as many BD copies as I want initially. However I cannot burn a disc img in Disc Utility (for the ease of burning copies later) using BD-R's. I CAN successfully burn using BD-RE's. (more expensive & not inkjet printable read/write discs). The error message I always receive is 'not enough space on the disc'

 

[tmagman]

this seems like a good place to ask... but has anyone had success running one of these internal drives through an external enclosure? I need a blu-ray drive for my macbook pro and keep looking at the once La-cie external one but its kinda pricey compared with putting together the LG with a enclosure. Also- what software do you use to burn blu-rays?