Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

On Mon, Jun 29 2015, Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2015-06-26, gottlieb@×××.edu <gottlieb@×××.edu> 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