External USB Blu-Ray drives under Linux?

[William Park]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:41:10PM -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Folks -
> 
> I've outgrown by DVD storage, so I'm considering upgrading to an external
> USB connected Blu-Ray burner. Using an external USB-connected hard drive
> works great on this Suse Linux box, so I'm hoping there is a similar
> solution for Blu-Ray.
> 
> Any comments on the feasibility of this? Does it require special software
> or can you simply mount the drive and copy to it?
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated. Here's the description of this system:
> 
> cat /etc/issue
> Welcome to openSUSE 10.3 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l).
> 
> cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.22.19-0.4-default (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version 4.2.1
> (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP 2009-08-14 02:09:16 +0200
> 
> Peter

I'm sure you did the math... but, isn't 3TB harddisk cheaper?  You get
those external dock, and swap the harddisk like you currently do with
DVD.
-- 
William
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