Hi guys. Just got my HP 36l setup storing my films and music. Can anyone recommend me a bluray drive and quiet hdd to store the rips on. I'm trying to spend as little as poss but don't mind spending more if it's justified. Jake
Just get the cheapest blu-ray rom drive you can. I got a LiteOn as it was the cheapest at the time and I can't fault it. As for HDD, what sort of size are you going for?
Depends if you're going to rip it 1:1 in perfect quality or not. You could probably compress it, without losing too much quality. Probably get it down to 3 or 4GB, maybe less. A perfect copy is probably more around 10-15GB.
Ya the brand does not matter. I think the cheapest is around $80 on newegg now. @noizdaemon666 - what are you using to rip? I was thinking of upgrading my 123DVDCopyGold to the blu-ray version.
Just been looking at drives an extra £7 upgrades the read speed from 4x to 10x would this be beneficial when ripping?
@ jakemorris3000 - read speed should help with ripping as it'll be able to read the disc faster. I think this is the case anyway. @Fuganater I've used a couple, WinX Blu Ray decrypter (it's free until tomorrow by the looks of it) and some others.
I clearly have shorter movies lol Or I haven't realised it's compressing it down, which is probably the case. But I have done them at ~4GB and it looks still really good compared to a DVD.
Yep, the easiest way to drop them in size is ditch the dts / lcpm audio and just use the ac3 track. Unless you have a super amazing sound system, nearly no one notices the difference. If you want them really small it is possible to get them down to 1gb or less and still have quality far superior to dvd.
