SUDDENLY ASUS BW-16D1HT READING AT 2.0X (8.9 M/s)

[davidahn]

Has anyone else had this happen to them?

My Asus BW-16D1HT w/ firmware 3.00 has been an amazing workhorse. It's ripped about 60 UHD Blu-rays plus a couple dozen 1080p Blu-rays. It reads UHD at approx. 4-9X normally (30-50 minutes per movie). But suddenly this afternoon it was taking 2+ hrs, reading at 2.0X (on Blade Runner 2049, which is 80+ GB, second rip because the first didn't rip the Atmos track).

I thought some config got messed up, so I stopped the rip, power cycled the drive and my iMac, restarted it, and sure enough, it's been holding steady at 2.0X for the last 2 hr 10 minutes, another 28 minutes to go. Mind you, nothing has changed to my knowledge, I've been ripping all day at 6-9X.

iMac 2017 Quad Core i7 4.2 GHz · 40 GB RAM · 12 TB RAID 5
macOS 10.13.4
MakeMKV 1.12.0
Asus BW-16D1HT v3.00

I thought maybe it overheated, but the case is cool. I just bought a laser lens cleaner, after 2+ hours I don't want to interrupt this rip (I was 2+ hours in when I stopped it to reboot everything!), so I'll try it after it finishes this rip. I'm also going to try deleting my MakeMKV pref file to see if that makes a difference.

[davidahn]

Also going to see if it's just this disc, but I don't remember it being this slow on this disc last time I ripped it.

[davidahn]

UPDATE:

Coco is reading at 5.4X already, so it must have just been the Blade Runner 2049 disc. Weird. I'll update further if anything changes. I hope I never have to rip THAT disc again!!!

[davidahn]

OK, it's up to 7.3X. NVM!!! Wow, Blade Runner 2049 had me worried!!!

[fljoemon]

Glad to know things worked out ... it is always some disc that is problematic I am in the process of trying to get a configuration similar to what you have.

[alexcoluzzi32]

Yeah both my ASUS drives are hauling ass, version 3.00 almost seems faster than 3.01, I'm almost done with the entire Harry Potter 8 disc set, wondering if I should rip the Blu Rays as well or why bother.

I've had it with this ancient XPS Studio 7100 though, I need to have my head examined spending all this time rehabbing this thing. Just bought a brand new XPS 8930 on sale at Fry's, well, open box, but I've good luck with open box usually. Add one more stick of RAM and I should be fine

Oh and to keep it on topic, my local store is out of BW-16D1HTs so I've got another two waiting for me at the Sunnyvale store. I wonder if I should bring a PC with me to plug each one in real quick and see what firmware's on em

[davidahn]

I've ripped about 4-5 more, averaging peak rates of 6-8x again. It was just the one movie.

Definitely varies widely though, some discs read slower. And rates generally faster for Blu-rays than UHD Blu-rays.

@FLJoe, if you're not too pot committed to your 2-drive RAID 0, I highly recommend the Open Digital Mobius 5-bay w/ Softraid bundle: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... olt_2.html.

@Alex, I always rip both UHD and Blu-ray, as non-HDR displays don't play back HDR 4K movies very well even if transcoded down. And when away from home full Blu-ray quality is MORE than enough.

I too just ripped the UHD Harry Potter 8-disc collection Sat-Sunday. Sadly, my collection came from the UK and it didn't come with 1080p Blu-rays, only the UHD Blu-rays. So now I'm struggling to find a transcoder that will convert the color spaces from BT.2020 to BT.709. I tried Handbrake, and the shadow detail is GONE, and colors are weird. I'd also bought a 7-disc Blu-ray Harry Potter boxed set that's just missing the 8th film, but I can't for the life of me find that set to rip for my 1080p SDR library.

Now I'm re-ripping all the UHD movies I'd ripped before I realized MakeMKV does NOT rip the Atmos/dts:X tracks unless you specifically check those.

I also got an LG WH16NS40 because they said it would work if it had SVC code NS50, but my firmware was too new. And I can't make heads not tails of Teddy Raspin's instructions.

What the heck are you gonna do with 4 Asus BW-16D1HT's?!?

[fljoemon]

I also got an LG WH16NS40 because they said it would work if it had SVC code NS50, but my firmware was too new. And I can't make heads not tails of Teddy Raspin's instructions.

It is extremely simple once you decide to follow his instructions and have the right hardware to do it. I struggled over the weekend with my POS Dell Dimension E520 ... today I took the ASUS BW-16D1HT to work and set up everything on my lab PC at work and used Windows 7 version listed on the guide to do everything without any hiccup. Downgraded to firmware 3.02 without any issues and drive rips great on the 4 UHD 4K discs I fed it. Key is to have a motherboard that supports SATA configuration in IDE mode, connect the drive to SATA0 port on the motherboard and boot to Windows7 from the Rufus made USB drive.

[davidahn]

I also got an LG WH16NS40 because they said it would work if it had SVC code NS50, but my firmware was too new. And I can't make heads not tails of Teddy Raspin's instructions.

It is extremely simple once you decide to follow his instructions and have the right hardware to do it. I struggled over the weekend with my POS Dell Dimension E520 ... today I took the ASUS BW-16D1HT to work and set up everything on my lab PC at work and used Windows 7 version listed on the guide to do everything without any hiccup. Downgraded to firmware 3.02 without any issues and drive rips great on the 4 UHD 4K discs I fed it. Key is to have a motherboard that supports SATA configuration in IDE mode, connect the drive to SATA0 port on the motherboard and boot to Windows7 from the Rufus made USB drive.

I don't know if I'd call it "extremely" simple. Haha I have an HTPC w/ Win 10 Pro on it. I made a FreeDOS boot disk on my Mac (using VirtualBox Win 10 Pro), I changed my BIOS to turn AHCI off and SATA to IDE mode, I'm almost positive I plugged the drive into the SATA0 port, but it wouldn't recognize the command "DOSFLASH".