The one spoken of in the link (LG) has performed flawless for me...Burned several projects thus far on Bluray and all have played perfectly on the PS3,not a single coaster thus far, unfortunantly none have played on the Bluray players at my local Sears store, probably due to the need for firmware updates for BD-R and BD-RE Media ....I purchased and use a external 5.25 enclosure for the Burner, so it is portable for all my needs at home and away....

Wait a minute... you purchased an external 5.25 enclosure for a Blu-Ray burner, and it works the same as any external drive that you can use with, say, a laptop & projector for group showings in HD? I didn't think that was possible (I don't know why I thought that), and I didn't want to spend the significant difference in an external Blu-Ray burner, so I've gone without. What does your data flow rate need to be to/from that burner, and what type of connection to you need to use? eSATA, USB2, Firewire?

which enclosure are you using. I'm thinking about doing the same thing.

Thanks

Here is the the Burner that I am using...http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136137
Here is the enclosure I am using....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392021
Works perfectly with my Desktop and my Dell Inspiron Laptop using USB 2.0 connection...as far as playback on other equipment it will depend on your Video card and software, other enclosures have SATA, Firewire and USB built into one package so you can choose lots of options, for me USB works fine...

Thanks for those links! I hadn't considered a USB2 enclosure, because a 6x Blu-Ray drive would write 27 MB/sec and that's right around the limit that USB2 achieves in the real world (not even taking into account control data overhead), so it seemed possible it might not work.

On the other hand, are there even any BD-R media that can be burned at 6x yet? So maybe it's not an issue anyway.

From the specs I have seen USB 2 0 achieves speeds up to 480Mbps, not sure why you think it would be limited....but you might consider other enclosures that have Hot SATA hookups as well as Firewire, but from what i gather USB 2.0 is just as fast as Firewire and it seems lots of companies are dropping firewire support .because of this.....for sure lots of Media does not support 6X, its not a big deal to me, I still average around 40Minutes of burn time per disc at 2X with USB 2.0 .....

In the real world, USB 2.0 is not as fast as Firewire.

Despite that high-speed USB 2.0 nominally runs at a higher signaling rate (480 Mbit/s) than FireWire 400 (400 Mbit/s), typical USB 2.0 PC-hosts rarely exceed a sustained transfer rate of 280 Mbit/s, usually more like 240 Mbit/s. This is because USB's relies on the host computer's CPU to manage the low-level USB protocol, where FireWire delegates the same tasks to the interface hardware. The FireWire host interface supports memory-mapped devices, which allows high-level protocols to run without loading the host CPU with interrupts and buffer-copy operations. Bottom line is that Firewire is much more efficient in its use of the available bitrate and will smoke USB v2.0 every time.

I have the LG GGW-H20L internally. Works perfectly, can recommend it.

Lou

I agree with Lou. Also have the LG GGW-H20L and have burned a few Blu Rays and they played well on the BDSP-300 Sony Blu Ray player (with latest firmware)

i do have issues trying to burn HD to standard DVD. It appears to be rather picky with the type (brand) of media

Ted