Choosing Your Blu-Ray or DVD Drives

Optical Drive Options:

The Blu-Ray or DVD drive basic decision here is what flavor do you want and how many.

Form factor:

Storage:

If you are unsure which optical drive to go with this is a good place to start:

• ASUS
• Lite-On
• Pioneer
• Samsung

Tips:

If you buy a Blu-Ray burner, buy a DVD burner and/or media also. Burn your smaller burn jobs to DVD or a CD. It costs a great deal less to do that.

There's not a whole lot of price difference between a DVD $16 USD ROM (reader) and a DVD $20 USD burner. At that difference, always buy the burner.

I've seen Blu-Ray burners for $80 USD. Generally, that's a sale price. Most of the burners start around $90 USD.

The main reason to go Blu-Ray is HD. High definition. Plus, I've noticed some games are now shipping on Blu-Ray rather then just DVD. It does makes sense for multiple titles to ship on one disc.

From Blu-Ray or DVD Drives to Home

Build List

Installing the Parts