Best/latest BluRay burner for MAC PRO?

[Warren Eig]

I’m happy with it.

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[Greg Barringer]

I installed the Pioneer BDR-205 in my spring ’09 Mac Pro. Works great however in System Preferences > Energy Saver I had to un-check “Put hard disks to sleep when possible”. Leaving it checked would put the Pioneer to sleep and it would not awake.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Greg Barringer] “Works great however in System Preferences > Energy Saver I had to un-check “Put hard disks to sleep when possible”

That should always be unchecked with any system running the ProApps.

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[Greg Barringer]

Thanks Walter, It makes sense since internal HDs are being used as scratch disks.

[Ben Holmes]

Another thumbs up for the Pioneer and internal SATA cable.

Only issue I’ve ever had is the drive opening each time I switch the Mac on – I disconnect it when it’s on hire so as not to scare the natives…

It’s also never coaster’ed a BD-R, and burns a 20Gb Blu-Ray image in about 15 mins.

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[Will Salley]

I think the internal Pioneer SATA solution is great, however, I’m using the motherboard SATA connections for additional external drives (you can never have enough you know), so I can’t use the Pioneer burner without an adaptor like this:

https://www.cooldrives.com/index.php/sahadradtoid.html

It should fit physically, but I don’t want to get into problems with buffer underuns, etc.
I don’t think throughput would be an issue. Right now I have a Mac Pro (early 2008) with an IDE optical drive interface but I’m probably going to be getting a new MacPro in April so I don’t really want to be locked in to an IDE only unit.

Other ideas?

Mac Pro 2×2.8 Quadcore – 10.6.2 – QT 7.6.3 – 22 GB RAM – nvidia8800GT – SATA internal & external storage – Blackmagic Multibridge Pro – Open GL 1.5.10 – Wacom Intous2 tablet – AJA io
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[John Pale]

Using the LG BE08LU20 External BluRay Burner (attached via a Sonnet eSATA card).

Its been working well for me. Like you Will, I am using my extra motherboard SATA connections for drives, so this was a good solution.

[Chris Borjis]

I’ve been using Verbatim DVD media for the last 5 years and had
no problems with thousands of discs made.

I would also recommend the TDK blu-ray disc media though.

It plays in every blu-ray player I’ve tried without problems.

It is the only burnable BD-R media that uses Durabis2 hard coating.
everyone knows how clients get finger prints and scratches on disc.
the TDK hard coat keeps it playing regardless

[Shelly Solomon]

I just bought a MCE blu-ray burner to go with my 2×3 ghz quad-core intel Xeon Mac. I am trying to burn a 30 minute HD video but it is going into 38 hours at this point and counting. should I stop the process or is this how long it takes? NEED HELP. THANKS.

[Kent Beeson]

Hi

Please write to MCE and tell them what’s happening – how are you burning? Via Toast or Finder? I couldn’t do either and had to go through MCE tech support and they after a a little while, sorted me out with a better solution.

Thanks

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