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fallenguru wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:08 pm

Any reason not to get the Asus BC-12D2HT instead of the recommended BW-16D1HT as a ripping allrounder?

josean99 wrote:Noob question... it's ok to use any these drives with a Ryzen 7 cpu?
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jinkers88 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:34 am

Hi

Could anybody please confirm my research - the best option at the moment is to buy the ASUS BW-12B1ST and flash to ASUS BW-16D1HT firmware.

There's only one optical drive slot on my PC so ideally I'm after a drive that can read 4k and burn discs. Worst case scenario I'll give up on burning discs.

Why I think the ASUS BW-12B1ST is the best option:

- I was going to buy a LG BH16NS55 and crossflash to Asus as people seem to say the ASUS BW-16D1HT reads a few discs that the LG does not.

- After research I found the LG crossflashed does not burn discs.

- So I thought I'll just get the ASUS BC-12D2HT and flash to the ASUS BW-16D1HT firmware.

- Then I figured that if I'm buying a new drive I might as well just get the latest model, the ASUS BW-16D1HT and downgrade that firmware.

- Then I read that the newest batches of ASUS BW-16D1HT have different hardware to the older batches of the same model, so this drive should not be used (flashing it will brick the drive).

Please keep in mind that whilst this info is out there, it's really hard to find some of it, so I'm looking for confirmation from users here as they are super-informed.

jinkers88 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:34 am

- Then I read that the newest batches of ASUS BW-16D1HT have different hardware to the older batches of the same model, so this drive should not be used (flashing it will brick the drive).

Bobvader wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:54 am

I have flash my lg wh14ns40 1.03 to 1.02 and work perfect for make 1:1 copy 4k movie on blu ray disk...

My question if I flash this drive with ns60 firmware 1.0? It will be again uhd friendly? Any advantage to do that? I use blue cloner for 1:1 copy and this software need uhd frienfly drive

Thanks

MartyMcNuts wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:28 am

Bobvader wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:54 am

I have flash my lg wh14ns40 1.03 to 1.02 and work perfect for make 1:1 copy 4k movie on blu ray disk...

My question if I flash this drive with ns60 firmware 1.0? It will be again uhd friendly? Any advantage to do that? I use blue cloner for 1:1 copy and this software need uhd frienfly drive

Thanks

No. If you flash it to NS60 firmware, the drive will be "UHD official", therefore not "UHD friendly" and will no longer work with Blu Cloner. It will however work with MakeMKV.

rui-no-onna wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:05 pm

Just received the drives and both have been flashed using the Unitek Y-1099 USB3-SATA adapter mentioned in the first post. Unexpectedly easy.

The LG came with 1.04 so I cross flashed that one with Asus 3.10 MK first before flashing NS60 1.00 DE.

Anyway, thank you for all the hard work on these tools and guides!

rui-no-onna wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:25 am

Billycar11 wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:30 am

BW161HT
WH14NS40 flashed to NS60

I have these two:
Asus BW-16D1HT (flashed to 3.10 MK)
LG WH14NS40 (flashed to NS60 1.00 DE)

Concur that they're pretty fast. I get 25 MB/s (~5.5x) average and 35 MB/s (~8x) peak ripping UHD66 with these drives so around 45 minutes for dual layer UHD.