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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

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[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 3 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.