Recommendations for an external optical drive that plays well with Linux?
from zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 19 Jan 18:56
https://lemmy.ml/post/24969714

It only has to be able to rip music CDs, nothing else.

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harsh3466@lemmy.ml on 19 Jan 19:27 next collapse

I have this OWC Mercury Pro, which I purchased after going through several cheap ones from amazon that kept dying on me. So far it’s been great. I’ve been using it to rip my cd & dvd collection. FWIW I’m running Fedora 41 and it works great.

Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Jan 19:54 next collapse

A couple of years ago I bought the pioneer BDR-XD07UHD. I just plug it in and it works great. It works flawlessly with makemkv and eac for ripping. I’ve used it on three PCs across Ubuntu, fedora, and endeavoros. No issues.

Amazon doesn’t sell this one anymore, it appears there’s a new version. Might be worth checking that one out.

GeraltvonNVIDIA@lemmy.ml on 19 Jan 21:57 next collapse

In my experience shit just works in Linux. I own an 10+ year old external DVD-Drive and an newer external BD-Diskdrive. And both of em work flawless on Manjaro.

aard@kyu.de on 19 Jan 22:07 next collapse

Just get a drive from any old notebook of the last 15 years or so someone wants to throw out, and buy a USB to SATA slim cable.

ByteWelder@feddit.nl on 19 Jan 23:12 next collapse

One of those cheap 12-15$ AliExpress DVD R/RW USB C drives did the trick for me.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech on 20 Jan 05:37 next collapse

Just CDs? Pretty much any of them

zod000@lemmy.ml on 20 Jan 15:00 next collapse

Asus makes a slim 8x external DVD burner that rips CDs very well in Linux, comes with usb-c and usb-a (double connectors.)

account_93@lemm.ee on 20 Jan 16:02 collapse

I use a Asus ZenDrive V1M