Anybody watching blu rays with this? Does the USB 3 work as well as connecting to the sata port on the motherboard?
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I've found it fairly equal. Of course the direct to motherboard is the best but I've watched several movies with the USB connection and it's finr
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Yes, and it works fine for watching BD even when plugged into a USB 2.0 port. If you plan to burn BluRay then you would would be more within spec using a USB 3.0 port, but my Vantec came with a USB 2.0 cable which is what I tested BlueRay playing with using the USB 2.0 port. The SATA 3 motherboard connectors are only marginally faster than USB 3.0 (6MB/sec vs. 5 MB/Sec).
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This case will hold any 3.5 inch drive including blu ray drive. I am using this case for a blu ray burner and am having no problems with it. Because the read and write speed of the burner is slower than either usb3 or sata it shouldn't matter.
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I have not watched blu rays, but the USB 3 is pretty fast compared to USB 3, pair it with a good drive, and I think you will be happy. but I can't answer your specific question.
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This is not a drive. It is a drive enclosure. It will play BluRays if you have a BluRay drive to put in it. I don't think it has cables to plug into the motherboard only a USB cable.
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Same here. Works fine with Blu Ray, but says Check Disc when I put in a DVD.
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I'd like to know the same thing. I own the computer but have not gotten it to play a blu-ray movie. ??!!
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I believe that model only has two sata ports so you would have to remove your optical drive from the motherboard for this cable to work
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Nope. This adapter was designed for Micro SATA connections. Full size drives use SATA connections. USB would also be too slow/not enough power to run a Blu Ray Drive.
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Hello again. Thanks to the Interposer on the back of this optical drive the sata cable that comes with it both powers the optical drive and is used for communication. If there is anything else I can do for you or if you have any other questions please let me know.Sincerely,Chris Nickels Red Planet Trading
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I am only using the USB3 function of the card. I planned to use the SATA III port for possible future expansion. The set up I use is one USB3 port going to a Seagate 2 TB expansion hard drive (for backup and system images) and the other port to a USB3 hub. I chose this card because of the dual functionality and price.
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I have the device connected to 42" connected to composite input and using a blu disk player. I used normal DVD disk movie in the blue disk player and everything works OK.I did not try blue disk movie to see the results yet.
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Robert, this is an interface adapter only, I did not connected it to Blu-Ray drive, but I recomend you to find another adapter with the power Jack separated. God bless you.
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Yes, it reads a DVDRW data disc just fine with .mp4 files, however if they are high-def files, it hick-ups periodically, due to the transfer rate, these should be on a blu-ray, but I don't have a BD burner yet. Haven't tried the USB yet, but it should read it also. Blu-rays are flawless, netflix is too, but shearching from the tv menu is lame, better to "pair" with your laptop, etc, and search from it, while playing through the tv.
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I got it to read DVDs and CDs after a week of frustration. Win 8.1 Pro 64bit had installed it twice with the 2006 Microsoft DVD/CD driver with both instances hidden in Device Manager showing both as not connected. I uninstalled both and rebooted it reinstalled and is working now. I haven't tried burning anything or playing Blu Ray disks. I've seen in some forums that Win 8 doesn't provide software for viewing Blu Ray and that you need a third party app.
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Yes, it does, although writing to a Blu-ray is somewhat slower. But that's due to the media itself. So far, after 3 month's usage, I've had no problems and have been very satisfied with this unit. I'm normally a Plextor guy, but I decided to try ASUS this time. Can't see a great deal of difference.
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I haven't had a problem playing rented Blu Ray discs or DVDs after installing the most current driver. I've heard that several people had issues, but I wonder if it was related to the driver.
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Don't know about that. I hooked up a sata drive and it works okay. Best to contact the maker of the blu ray drive for info.
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Nope not the one. I'm waiting for a solid state True Full HD (1920x1080) 30p solution. I couldn't care less about HDDVD BlueRay compatibility. I'll be playing the files from HDD of HTPC. I'm considering Sanyo VPC-HD2 as interim camera.
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sorry, I haven`t tested that. I will have a USB3 portable hd soon. I'll check it out.
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Yes, I was able to get it to work, including blu-ray movie playback, on my Surface Pro 3. To get it to read data disks, it's just a plug and play device, howver Windows 8.1 does not include any software to support playback for blu-ray movies, but this product comes with software that makes it possible. I installed some of the software that came with the product, but not all of it. I think the firmware update and cyberlink dvd are absolutely necessary to get blu-ray movie playback (you have to update the cyberlink dvd, but it didn't cost anything).