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
They work great! I have several. If you’re using MakeMKV it has some trouble with older Blu-Ray drives in the more recent version. The workaround is to download an appimage of the last working version so it can dump the firmware files of those drives. Then you can run the latest version without issue. It’s alot easier than it sounds. Let me know if you need any help.