But like the Asus drive, I read that supposedly it's known to break down a lot and not be reliable? Apparently even the latest firmware at the time of this post is supported in LibreDrive. LG WH16NS60 - The second one I saw mentioned. Also, apparently if I do this, I can no longer use the drive to play UHD movies? So while I saw this drive mentioned a lot in the past, I think this one is not viable anymore and there are better alternatives now? and the process to downgrade it to restore it is apparently involved, requires specific motherboard features, and could brick the drive if you do it wrong. On top of that, apparently it's UHD support was removed in a firmware update. From what I understand, these drives are apparently not reliable and break down a lot, as well as are very picky with what blank media (Mostly CD) you use and will not work with many of them. Trying to Google this as well as read the drive reviews on other forums, very few drives fit the bill, I was able to come up with three:Īsus BW-16D1HT - This seems to be (or at least was apparently) the 'go to' for being able to rip your UHD movies with LibreDrive, but does not appear to be what I am looking for at all.

though apparently getting quad-layer support will be hard? From what I understand, this was depreciated over triple-layer but there are some quad-layer disks on the market?), as well as have UHD support for watching my HD, 3D, and 4K Blu-Rays on a PC. I know I won't be able to get support for some of the more obscure/never popular formats like HD-DVD and that's fine. My main purpose of the drive is to try to read and write as many standard formats as possible (CD, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-DL RW, BDXL RE, etc.

This comes second to just trying to get a quality burner that supports BDXL and UHD though. Since the upgraded Motherboard/CPU now supports UHD (Yes, I am well aware of all the hoops one needs to jump through to make this work on a PC) I wanted to replace it with a newer drive that has more support for the newer formats, and could possibly let me rip all the movies I have on disk since I have been getting quite the collection recently and it's becoming a bit of a pain to deal with them physically. I currently have an internal Blu-Ray burner in my desktop that supports up to Dual-Layer.

Libredrive drives