I have a LG WH16NS40 mounted in an Icy Dock external optical drive.
It's generally been ok, frustrating at times, but the latest round of Blu Ray discs it's failing to read sufficiently. From time to time there would be a problematic read, but now it's every disc. I'll be digging out a previously ripped with no issues disc to test further.
I uploaded the firmware to it originally from here, but don't know off the top of my head the details atm.
So I'm looking at a replacement or options. What's the recommendation these days, I'm on Windows 11, but also have a Ubuntu linux box.