Because it is dirt cheap compared to HDDs where I am, I will be storing my movie collection in Blu-Ray. And partially because I think spinny media is cool.
I currently got two secondhand options for the drive:
- Pioneer BDR-209EBK
- Panasonic UJ272
The drive will be plugged into my server (6th gen i5-6600, old desktop) via SATA. It will probably only read the disks I write so DRM is not much of a concern.
The disks will mostly be used as archival storage. Most of the time, they will be transferred to SSD a few days/hours before streaming, though sometimes they may be played straight from BD-R
Aside from that, most of the Blu-Ray writing software I found is GUI. So I’d also appreciate something I could control via web or CLI
I have zero issues with manjaro Linux and my internal LG Bluray-Drive.
I managed to run 95% of my Movie-Collection (ca. 200 Disks).
If you want to play DRM-Protected Blurays, you just have to make sure, that you have the latest keyDB-File installed and configured https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray .
Personally i mostly use GUI-Software, but makemkv should work on cli as well.
Also i didnt flashed my drive with libredrive yet. Maybe if i would, it could run all my Discs ^^`