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but I am planning on making it external with adapters and what not!
Make sure that the adapter you get supports optical drives and has an external 12V PSU.
I use an LG BH16NS55 myself. My best drive.
If it is just for this you can use pretty much any drive just make sure it supports Bluray XL although any on the market right now should do so.
Unless I am mistaken any Bluray birner can burn MDisk Blurays just fine. Unlike M Disk DVDs they do not need a special laser.
Thanks for your comment:)
Yeah man, I'm getting a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter that has a 12v input with the power supply with it so that shall be good. (I've checked the voltages and what not)
Cool, thanks. I'm in the UK so I would probably have to import one.
Just make sure it also supports optical drives. Had to learn the hard way that not all do. And USB 3.0 is not strictly necassary as optical drives rarely take advantage of it.
All Blu-Ray burners are M-Disc Blu-Ray burners. What's more, there was even before some contention regarding how/if they're actually different but now as Verbatim isn't the "japanese Verbatim" they don't even bother to put the different metadata (MILLEN...) for the M-Discs, so they are probably 100% the same except for the box/spindle label.