not sure which is the best forum for this question, but as it is a storage device, thought i'd try here
i rip movies to keep as archival or backup copies. I've been using a LG WH14NS40 internal 5.25" BD rewriter which went into use when i built this computer november, 2014. The past few month. It's performed flawlessly burning BDs (i've burnt maybe 100 BDs).
Lately, the past few months, i've had BD movie discs that, for whatever reason, the player didn't want to recognize - i'd have to eject it, re-insert and try again, and one in particular, took maybe 10 attempts, but it finally was recognized.
Yesterday i had one that would not recognize, i tried re-inserting 30+ times and it kept indicating "no disc". It didn't appear dirty but i still cleaned it with liquid soap/warm water. Finally, i tried it in a laptop BD writer in an external enclosure - it was recognized but copying it was extremely slow (speed was showing at 1X) and was going to take 3-4 hours to copy the 25 GB actual movie file. 2.5 hours into it, it "errored" out.
I'm not sure why a laptop BD drive would recognize it, when the 5.25" didn't - the laptop drive doesn't burn BDs as accurately as the 5.25" drive does, ie on the lower quality discs, like Optical Quantum, the laptop doesn't "verify" 5 out of 6 discs, where the 5.25" drive verifies on every disc, no failures.
Are the formats on BD discs that varied, or is the 5.25" drive signalling me it's heading south?
any input appreciated.
i rip movies to keep as archival or backup copies. I've been using a LG WH14NS40 internal 5.25" BD rewriter which went into use when i built this computer november, 2014. The past few month. It's performed flawlessly burning BDs (i've burnt maybe 100 BDs).
Lately, the past few months, i've had BD movie discs that, for whatever reason, the player didn't want to recognize - i'd have to eject it, re-insert and try again, and one in particular, took maybe 10 attempts, but it finally was recognized.
Yesterday i had one that would not recognize, i tried re-inserting 30+ times and it kept indicating "no disc". It didn't appear dirty but i still cleaned it with liquid soap/warm water. Finally, i tried it in a laptop BD writer in an external enclosure - it was recognized but copying it was extremely slow (speed was showing at 1X) and was going to take 3-4 hours to copy the 25 GB actual movie file. 2.5 hours into it, it "errored" out.
I'm not sure why a laptop BD drive would recognize it, when the 5.25" didn't - the laptop drive doesn't burn BDs as accurately as the 5.25" drive does, ie on the lower quality discs, like Optical Quantum, the laptop doesn't "verify" 5 out of 6 discs, where the 5.25" drive verifies on every disc, no failures.
Are the formats on BD discs that varied, or is the 5.25" drive signalling me it's heading south?
any input appreciated.