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And Hurt Locker bombed out...

Annoying as it was ripping just fine, got to about 90% and then I stupidly pushed the drive letter for the blu-ray drive when I was trying to set up a Handbrake encode, which caused a clash between it and MakeMKV which was in process of ripping it quite happily.

Not ...

Had a slight oddity in trying to rip my Hurt Locker blu-ray tonight. The drive spun up but gave up trying to read it after a few minutes. Put it in my old Asus portable drive and it's had no issue with it - read it just fine and is currently ripping it.

I had a similar issue with another movie, but ...

Gotta say I'm not quite happy with my replacement BW-D1HT.

I bought one back in 2015, it was firmware 3.0 and ripped right out of the box. Speeds were fast. I'd se 25-35MB/s all the time. Sounded like a jet spinning the disc up.

Unfortunately the drive stopped reading discs. Something to do with ...

Just wanted to share some thoughts on this drive and experience so far in case anyone else wants to take the plunge on it.

UK buyer - came from E-Buyer at £56ish.
Plugged into a SATA port direct (with AHCI enabled).
Drive came with 3.10 firmware (not sure if that's 3.10a or not) and a manufacture ...