My 7 year old dell finally died. I replaced it with a Dell T workstation & upgraded to win 7 Pro.
As I was about to swap my dual layer DVD burners(2) I found there are no IDE ports. I know I can get a controller card & use that, but I thought maybe it was time to upgrade to a blu ray burner.
Any recommendations on an internal one?

 

Not once have I wished I had a bluray burner

 

BR burner, unless you're backing up a lot to optical. Don't worry about a burner.

 

Yeah no use for a blu-ray burner. Well if you have a program like anydvdhd you could rip blu-ray disc images and it'll remove copy protection then you could burn it back to blu-ray but blu-ray disc are pretty expensive, especially the dual layer ones you'd need.

I have two blu-ray readers that I use all the time for ripping blu-ray movies to my media server (doing it right at this moment). I have the Samsung SH-B123L and the LG CH08LS10. The Samsung is the newer faster one.

 

Well I have a use for it since I burn DVD's & CD's for a local church as a side job. It burns all of that plus Blu Ray's. I needed something as I would have had to buy a controller card for IDE plus power adapters for the drives. Didn't make sense, so I bought a PIONEER | BDR-206. Seems to get decent reviews & will do everything I need it to do. And got it for $95 shipped. No software, but I have a ton of that anyway.

I looked at that Samsung SH-B123L & may get that to replace the standard DVD drive in the computer now, but that will have to wait a few weeks.

 

The Samsung burns CDs and DVDs too

 

But not blu ray. If I'm paying for a burner I figured I'd get the option.