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
You can rip and store Blu-rays without DRM without Libredrive, just not UHD Blu-ray’s unless the drive is on an old unpatched firmware. I have one such drive.
To burn a playable Blu-Ray movie you need the dump from MakeMKV and ImgBurn running in Wine. Blu-ray movies require UDF 2.50 I think. You can then create an .iso that can be burned to a disc using K3b or Brasero or whatever.
I’m happy to answer any questions as I have quite a bit of experience with this.