Swapping a Blu-Ray Player for a BluRay Writer

[Warmtoast]

Swapping a Blu-ray Player for a Blu-ray Writer


Advice please.


My Acer i7 Laptop has a Blu-ray Player, a MAT****A BD-MLT UJ240AS.


Is it possible to swap this player for a Blu-Ray Writer/ReWriter and if so any suggestions as to what replacement would be compatible with the physical characteristics of the original MAT****A BD-MLT UJ240AS drive?


TIA

[mixture]

I know its not what you want to hear but...

Unless you absolutely need an internal one, I'd suggest just getting an external drive and be done with it. :cool:

The current drive is likely to be OEM, and a suitable replacement (if any) is likely to have to be OEM too ... something which you might struggle to source as a mere home-user.

Other than sourcing OEM parts, I suspect the predominant problem you'll face is having to fiddle around with salvaging the plastic bezel from your old drive and grafting it onto the new one so that it all fits and looks the part on the Acer enclosure.

A possible "quick fix" solution assuming a variant of your Acer model shipped with a Blue-Ray Writer would be to get in touch with Acer and buy one as a spare part.... but as I said, Acer would have had to have been shipping another variant of the same model with a Blu-ray spec for that to work.

[FullOppositeRudder]

Unless you absolutely need an internal one, I'd suggest just getting an external drive and be done with it. :cool:I'd vote for that!

To satisfy my curiosity I checked on the price of Blue-Ray external drives. They are available in Australia for less than 100AUD. I'd expect that a replacement internal drive - if available - would be significantly more than that. Without knowing your intended useage of a drive with write capability, there's also the convenience of having two drives if you are copying disks.

Research the internal option by all means, but an external alternative has a couple of advantages to offset admitted hassle of having to carry it around all (or some) of the time.

[Bushfiva]

Warmtoast, is it not working or something? Your drive writes to BD-E and BD-RE quite happily (and anything else that is vaguely round). If you simply want to replace it with a faster unit, it's a standard form factor.

[terrain safe]

http://http://www.cclonline.com/product/125242/SN-506BB/BEBE/Slimline-Optical-Drives/Samsung-SN-506BB-6X-Blu-ray-Writer-Slim-SATA-Internal-Black-/CDR0202/

Try this one.

[Warmtoast]

Bushfiva


is it not working or something? Your drive writes to BD-E and BD-RE quite happily

It writes fine to DVDs both + and - and double-layer DVDs too, but just doesn't write to Blu-rays and I don't think it's designed to do this - hence my question. It does however, play Blu-ray films superbly well - I just wish it would write Blu-ray discs too.

The easy answer seems to be for an external Blu-ray writer, but given that my laptop is a few years old and only has USB2 sockets will USB2 pass data fast enough to write Blu-rays successfully?

Terrain Safe


Thanks for the suggestion. It looks as though the Samsung SN-506BB (6X) Blu-ray Writer Slim SATA Internal (Black) you recommended may do the job, but there is another factor that has entered the equation in that it looks as if it will be a major task to gain access to the existing optical drive bay, it doesn't have an easy screw-in panel covering the drive as it does for the hard drive and I'm doubtful whether my technical capability stretches to dismantling the case of my laptop, held in as it is by a plethora of screws.

In the meantime any suggestions as to a good external Blu-ray writer?