Because it is dirt cheap compared to HDDs where I am, I will be storing my movie collection in Blu-Ray. And partially because I think spinny media is cool.

I currently got two secondhand options for the drive:

  • Pioneer BDR-209EBK
  • Panasonic UJ272

The drive will be plugged into my server (6th gen i5-6600, old desktop) via SATA. It will probably only read the disks I write so DRM is not much of a concern.

The disks will mostly be used as archival storage. Most of the time, they will be transferred to SSD a few days/hours before streaming, though sometimes they may be played straight from BD-R

Aside from that, most of the Blu-Ray writing software I found is GUI. So I’d also appreciate something I could control via web or CLI

  • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    24 hours ago

    The drives should work fine, for standard blurays and self wrote disks. There are a mature cli utilities and often the gui version is just a frontend for the cli tools. It is just an optical drive otherwise.

    Arch Linux Wiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray

    Check out makemkv, which has a cli option, and their forum for compatibility for 4K blurays. Newer bluray drives have additional protection for 4K if I understood correctly.

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
    6·
    23 hours ago

    Check MakeMKV’s forum for drive models if your intention is to playback (with free software) or to backup.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    1·
    21 hours ago

    I don’t have any experience with those drives, but i do have an LG BE16NU50 drive, which i already had when i was still on windows, and it worked on linux no problem. I also use it to play/rip CDs. I’m not sure if it’s any different for 4k bluray drives, since mine is older and 1080p only, but from my experience it just works.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    23 hours ago

    Works great I write and read bluray discs all the time. I ripped my collection to my nas with no issues. Just have to get the keys setup.