Advice on new Pioneer optical drive purchase

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DennisOlof
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Advice on new Pioneer optical drive purchase

Post by DennisOlof » Fri Nov 07, 2025 1:01 pm

I know that Pioneer have ceased production and I want to buy a Pioneer drive because I have used them in the past.
I will have to buy from Ebay and most of the driver are located in China. Somewhere in the forums there was
talk about fake devices but I am unsure of how you know if a unit is genuine or not.

The device will be used for backup of personal data on quality media. I use mechanical harddrive now for bulk storage
of mostly unimportant data but some data I want to put on optical media for additional backup protection
in case something goes wrong with the harddrives. I am unsure what drive I should buy because I have no clue what
the difference is between different Pioneer drives. These are the drives that seem readily available from sellers
on Ebay. If I want LibreDrive support I am going to get another bluray drive for that use only.

Can I buy a drive elsewhere, what drives do you recommend, have I overlooked a model ?

These are the one I could find that have a resonable price :|

BDR-S12XJ (BDR-S12JX)
BDR-S12JBK
BDR-212DBK

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