I’ve got an old Dell that has a blu-ray burner built in. Thing is OLD, it’s got a Core i7 processor with a 3 digit model number. But it runs Mint just fine. I beat the hell out of the poor thing ripping my whole DVD collection, and basically it’s my optical media authoring box now. I rarely crank it up but if I truly need optical media made it’s what I turn to.
Ah thats a great idea! I got an optiplex second hand to try my hand at linux recently. I wonder if it has a bd drive. Its an i7 too.
I want to take all my media and rip it for sharing with the fam. Over covid I was putting things on my cloud for others to grab but I want to do a full jellyfin build now.
Mine is an old XPS box, and it’s kind of cool to have because it’s got a lot of obsolete hardware. A PCI slot, external SATA, it might even have Firewire. So it’s a relatively modern box I can run modern software on with old IO.
And it’s getting harder to find decent optical drives. USB external ones are utter buttgarbage.
I was hopeful I would find a decent bluray drive to rip some movies I have but I cant see anything priced as I would have thought and decent.
I got a usb dvd one that works fine
I’ve got an old Dell that has a blu-ray burner built in. Thing is OLD, it’s got a Core i7 processor with a 3 digit model number. But it runs Mint just fine. I beat the hell out of the poor thing ripping my whole DVD collection, and basically it’s my optical media authoring box now. I rarely crank it up but if I truly need optical media made it’s what I turn to.
Ah thats a great idea! I got an optiplex second hand to try my hand at linux recently. I wonder if it has a bd drive. Its an i7 too.
I want to take all my media and rip it for sharing with the fam. Over covid I was putting things on my cloud for others to grab but I want to do a full jellyfin build now.
Mine is an old XPS box, and it’s kind of cool to have because it’s got a lot of obsolete hardware. A PCI slot, external SATA, it might even have Firewire. So it’s a relatively modern box I can run modern software on with old IO.