Some people are saying I shouldn’t buy a Slim External BD Burner if I want to burn good quality discs, because they are crap and the discs will die sooner. Is that true?
Is it a better option to buy an internal drive and use some kind of sata to usb external adapter?
I’d prefer the SLIM USB one, but if the burn quality is really worse, I will consider an internal as external…
No, squashing the drive especially one so thin may be worse.
Slim drives really don’t have much to them, because they are supposed to be light and portable. They are practically made of tinfoil in comparison to a standard size drive.
If you wanted to secure a slim external the last thing you should do is crush it with a random object you use as a “paper weight” considering nobody likely has such a thing these days they will just drop something else on it. If you really want to concern yourself with burn quality, additional stress on the shape and position of finely tuned and thinly made drives is the last thing to try.
What I was saying is you want to have it flat on a table and not laying on the bed like I’ve seen so many do.
I don’t know about that, I have an old slim DVD burner by Delock, so it was rather cheap, but that thing is sturdy as hell. Those things are slim drives in external cases, after all. Nothing tinfoil about the case, though I wouldn’t (and didn’t intend to suggest to) put a heavy weight on a naked caseless slim internal drive itself.
Also, the disk is fixed tightly in place in slim drives, even if the walls were to be slightly bent, I doubt there would be an effect on burn quality because the disk isn’t going anywhere and the laser is articulated.
Throw the paperweights on there, I say.