Good to have for when your UHD Blu-ray collection inevitably grows over the years. I personally like that compactness of the drive and the price ain't bad either for a UHD capable drive.

I get about roughly 20+ MB/sec a few minutes after starting a Blu-ray rip and haven't had really any issue with the drive itself. Just download the modified Asus Firmware Flasher Tool (be sure to download the ZIP which contains both application and firmware files!), start the application and flash your drive with either the official v1.00 or custom v1.03MK BU40N appropriate firmware.Īfter that, you should be good to rip pretty much any Blu-ray (UHD or otherwise). You can choose which titles you want to rip here. Once MakeMKV is done scanning for titles, you’ll see a list of them in the left-hand panel of the app. Click this to scan the titles on your disc. After a moment, a big Blu-Ray drive icon will appear.

You do have to do a little bit of extra work to enable LibreDrive, but it's fairly straightforward well worth the trouble in my opinion. To rip your movie, put the disc in your Blu-Ray drive and open MakeMKV. You can either connect it via USB Type-C cable or a cable with two USB Type-A ends to it to supply the extra power required to operate the drive (both cables are included, but fair warning, they are on the short side if that an issue for you). Essentially, it's the ultra-slim LG BU40N UHD Blu-ray drive in an aluminum housing with a USB 3 Micro B port for connectivity.

I actually just purchased a month or so ago the Archgon Aluminum External USB 3.0 UHD Drive for about $120 and really am liking the drive.

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