[ale] OT:DVD burner recommendations

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 07:37 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
> I was a little hesitant about LG, but I think I'll take a closer look
> at it now. I found it interesting in one of the comments the
> individual mentioned that he was able to rip a Blu-Ray DVD using 50GB
> of HDD space. Wow, never gave it much though how big the file(s) could
> be for HD movies. He also said that he ripped a HD-DVD taking 25GB.
> What's the difference as to content? Also I can see the need for
> multi-TeraByte HDDs. If one was so inclined to rip all of their
> Blu-Ray DVDs say 60 movies you would need 4 TB HDDs. Gotta go to get
> another cup of java.

I have been very happy with LG drives personally.  I have (ab)used them
heavily and they've not gone out.  (Of course, now that I have said
that, the old one probably will... *knocks on wood*)  Both of the drives
in my current system are LG drives:

mbt at zest:~$ wodim -scanbus|grep 'Removable'
0,0,0	  0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRRW GSA-H20L ' 'S853' Removable CD-ROM
3,0,0	300) 'HL-DT-ST' 'BDDVDRW GGC-H20L' '1.02' Removable CD-ROM

mbt at zest:~$ dmesg|grep -i dvd
[   93.148293] ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVDRRW GSA-H20L, S853, max
UDMA/33
[   93.320739] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-H20L
S853 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   96.622853] ata4.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW GGC-H20L, 1.02, max
UDMA/133
[   97.426230] scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW GGC-H20L
1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   97.570347] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray
[   98.017157] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray

	--- Mike

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