Some people are saying I shouldn’t buy a Slim External BD Burner if I want to burn good quality discs, because they are crap and the discs will die sooner. Is that true?
Is it a better option to buy an internal drive and use some kind of sata to usb external adapter?
I’d prefer the SLIM USB one, but if the burn quality is really worse, I will consider an internal as external…
It depends on the model, not the type. I know normal internal ones are generally faster than thin drives, but I don’t think more reliable.
There are full sized external drives that have their own power supply. I think they are basically the internal ones with SATA to USB adapter inside an enclosure.
The best thing with slim blu ray drives is the fact many servers have an optical drive option.
I bought the best internal one I could find at the time (6-7 years ago?) and installed it in a full size external enclosure. Nice because I can use it with different PCs but it’s still a tank.
Still works flawlessly.
Should be fine but they are lighter so it’s easier for external vibrations and knocks to affect them.
Internal drives also tend to be cheaper.
If that’s really your concern, put a paperweight on the drive?
No, squashing the drive especially one so thin may be worse.
Slim drives really don’t have much to them, because they are supposed to be light and portable. They are practically made of tinfoil in comparison to a standard size drive.
If you wanted to secure a slim external the last thing you should do is crush it with a random object you use as a “paper weight” considering nobody likely has such a thing these days they will just drop something else on it. If you really want to concern yourself with burn quality, additional stress on the shape and position of finely tuned and thinly made drives is the last thing to try.
What I was saying is you want to have it flat on a table and not laying on the bed like I’ve seen so many do.
I don’t know about that, I have an old slim DVD burner by Delock, so it was rather cheap, but that thing is sturdy as hell. Those things are slim drives in external cases, after all. Nothing tinfoil about the case, though I wouldn’t (and didn’t intend to suggest to) put a heavy weight on a naked caseless slim internal drive itself.
Also, the disk is fixed tightly in place in slim drives, even if the walls were to be slightly bent, I doubt there would be an effect on burn quality because the disk isn’t going anywhere and the laser is articulated.
Throw the paperweights on there, I say.
I read at some forums the quality of the laser is worse in the external drives, but I am not sure.
The slim drives have practically nothing in them.
The lasers won’t be worse or better but as there is “less drive” they may have a shorter life if they get hotter, that would not really affect burn quality.
I don’t like slim drives because of the low quality cost cut mechanism Vs the laser.
I simply like bigger gears