Been thinking of getting a external blu ray burner to play blu ray movies and burn cds/dvds.
Is the only disadvantage of going external usb that it takes a bit longer to burn discs? As for watching blu ray movies will it still be good quality?
My internal dvd drive crapped out recently and I want to get a external blu ray drive.
I do not think that an External Burner or Optical drive would have any real disadvantage functionality wise.
A Blu-Ray is about the fastest required read-speed, and that is 32MBit/s, which is well within the 480MBit/s speed of USB2. The only consideration would be what other devices are being used at the time, since all USB devices on a single root hub will share the 480MBit/s bandwidth.
