Blu-Ray Burner

[Mike Goetzke]

Several years ago I was big into making backups of my Blu-Rays on disk and digital files to play on my tablet. Have gotten away from this but want to get into it again for a few disks I have as Christmas gifts. I have an old desktop that has two dual layer read/write Blu-Ray drives but haven't used this computer in a few years. I now use a nice Dell/Alienware big screen laptop and would like to do the work on it.

So, wondering if:

1) Fire up the desktop and try to remember (Ha) how to burn and translate there and purchase an external BR player for my newer laptop.
2) Get enclosures to make the BR drives work on my laptop.
3) Buy new external drives for my laptop.

Been away from this for a while so don't know which drives are best today. We all like new but probably most practical is (1). Appreciate you thoughts and help.

 

[smorgasbord]

4) Buy and setup a NAS server on your internal network that your laptops, tablets, and phones can all use for data & backups. Then backup the BAS to one of two large external drives that you rotate every few months, keeping one at work or a friend’s house.

 

[peter halle]

Aren't you going to butt heads with anti-copying features? I am ignorant on this because I haven't done it in 20 years.

Peter

 

[Breizh]

Aren't you going to butt heads with anti-copying features? I am ignorant on this because I haven't done it in 20 years.

Peter

Not if he is using it for backups

 

[Chainring]

If you're only looking to do 1080 content, just about any drive that's capable of reading them will do it along with MakeMKV. Where it gets tricky is going up to UHD (4K) as the market is drying up for drives that can read UHD AND usable by MakeMKV.