(responding to Tim and Samuel)
On 9/19/2025 10:30 PM, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 10:40 -0600, home user via users wrote:
When I ordered my desktop, I was told by 2 different salesmen that cases
are no longer made with 5 1/4 inch slots. So I cannot do a blu-ray
drive with a SATA interface. I had to order an external drive, and
everything that I saw was limited to USB-2 connections.
I'm somewhat surprised at that. Maybe their supplier doesn't offer
them. They're certainly around.
But do they really mean cases without the space for CD/DVD/BluRay
drives poking through the front of the chassis, or are they thinking of
internal hard drive bays?
They meant "cases without the space for CD/DVD/BluRay
drives poking through the front of the chassis".
HDDs are getting less common, and they're the only drive left that is
that size inside the domesticated PC. All the SSDs I see are either
3.5 inch laptop sized, or the ones that fit onto the motherboard M.2
header.
[snip]
On 9/20/2025 12:20 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 9/19/25 5:32 PM, home user via users wrote:
> [snip]
>> It's LG Electronics BP60NB10. If I understand the web page info
about it correctly, it's USB-2. The web page talked about SATA, but I
see no way of connecting this thing directly to SATA. Sad; USB-2 is
really slow.
>
> You can get a regular internal drive and a USB3 external case to put
it in.
Hopefully 3.2, not 3.0. USB 3.2 is about 4 times faster. That's
valuable when using blu-rays for something other than watching videos.
I'll keep that in mind when I get around to replacing my old 720p TV.
I'm waiting for TVs that display the "Rec. 2020" color space, or the
"wide-gamut RGB" (also called "Adobe Wide Gamut RGB") color space.
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