On Mon, Jun 29 2015, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-06-26, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical >> drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first >> thought was to get a drive that is both >> a blue ray READER and >> a dvd writer > > AFAIK, none of my current computers have (or ever have had) blue ray > drives. I'm 100% sure that 3 of them don't, but it's possible my > laptop can read blue ray disks. > > Even the DVD drives get used very rarely these days. I used to install > OSes from optical disks, and therefor I used to burn the occasional > Fedora/Ubuntu DVD or systemrescuecd CD. But, I use USB flash drives > for that these days[1]. The optical drives my computers _do_ have > don't seem to be very reliable. Not that you'd expect much from > anything with a motor and lots of of moving parts for which you paid > $15. > > The only reason I can think of for having a BR drive is so you can > watch BR movies that Netflix mails you[2]. > > [1] Despite all steps explained in the blog posts on how to build a > bootable flash drive based on an ISO image, I've found that for > everything except systemrescuecd, all I have ever had do is: > > dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=64k > > [2] I still get plain old DVDs -- it turns out that blue ray doesn't > improve the characters, plot, writing, direction, cinematography, > editting, or anything that else matters about movies. A Michael > Bay movie on blue ray is still a Michael Bay movie.
Thank you Grant. I am planning to use a dd statment just like yours. allan
