I’m looking for a disk drive that works with linux, connects via USB-A, and is compatible with CDs and DVDs (blu-ray would be good but it isn’t necessary). Does anybody have any recomendations?
I’m looking for a disk drive that works with linux, connects via USB-A, and is compatible with CDs and DVDs (blu-ray would be good but it isn’t necessary). Does anybody have any recomendations?
Aren’t all of them working due to standardization? I mean, you can boot from them like you would from a USB stick.
Yes. Any one from Amazon will work. There are several Blueray ones; I believe I’ve even seen BD writers.
OP might be talking about something they can watch DVDs and Blueray disks on, though; in that case it might be more complex. I don’t know if BD DRM complicates things.
Most dvd’s should be fine as VLC can play almost any of them.
BD is where things get complicated because of DRM, expect almost none of them to work thanks to big corpo telling us what we can and can’t do with something you bought and paid for (sadly enough streaming doesn’t get much better either)
MakeMKV should help with this but if you want to read 4k blu rays, you need to choose carefully what drive you buy, because getting those to work can be a pain in the ass.