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ggrantly

01-28-2010, 12:59 AM

Hello Listers,

Has anyone attempted to put a internal sata blu-ray burner in a mac tower? I am interested in burning demo discs and also using blu-ray for storage. How are you handling this.

Has anyone tried this in a MacPro Tower?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/655432-REG/Pioneer_BDR_205BKS_BDR_205_Internal_Blu_ray_Burner .html

BH says PC, I have found other sites that say Mac too. I called Pioneer and after 3 people and 30 minutes of wasted time, they didn't know.....makes you wonder.

LaCie makes an firewire external for $125 more....hmmf.

Best Regards,
Grant

wgzn

01-28-2010, 01:51 AM

pioneer, panasonic, sony. not sure the brand. but i have heard of a reliable EXTERNAL bluray burner for macs.

David Saraceno

01-28-2010, 11:16 AM

Hey Grant

Go to macsales.com.

Great company with good product selection and installation videos as well.

Neil Burner

01-28-2010, 01:14 PM

i have a panasonic sata internal BD burner I bought and put it in a external sata enclosure and its been working great for me the past 2 years using toast 8 titanium...Also I have built a few hackintoshes with cheaper liteON BD burners and had no problems...OSX has blu ray support built in so you shouldn't need drivers for most drives...

ggrantly

01-29-2010, 01:48 PM

I was hoping for something to fit in the second tray on my Mac Pro. My workstation has spilled pasta everywhere (wire)

Grant

David Saraceno

01-30-2010, 11:27 AM

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Pioneer/BDR205BKMP/

Dick Campbell

02-02-2010, 10:44 AM

I bought an external Blu-ray burner, have used it on USB with both the Mac and PC (XP/SP3) to archive data on 25G BDRs. I had to get Toast to use it on the Mac. Burner came with a Blu-ray version of PowerDVD. I have yet to make a BR video disk.

ggrantly

02-05-2010, 03:00 AM

Thanks for the info, I had been looking at the SATA internal blu-ray drives. Pioneer has a new 12x model which sounds better for the 50Gig discs! What model external box are you using? Any suggestions. Most of the SATA boxes I have purchased for external drives don't look like they would fit the tray-drawer on the burner?? Have I got this wrong?

Regards,
Grant