Can you install a blu-ray drive on these? Looking to make a cheap HTPC.
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Hey Richard, thanks for your question. You can install a bluray on the computer. You need to pay attention to the interface(the connection) so when you buy a bluray, you can buy an external USB2.0 bluray disc. They are plenty out there. For the internal bluray, you have to look for a SATA interfaced drive and it has to be small factor. Then you will have to sacrifice the CD/DVD drive to fit it into this PC. SO ye you can install a Bluray on this computer. THanx
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According to the installation guide, it will play Blu Ray but it says nothing about writing to Blu Ray. It says to use HDCP compatible display and VGA card to get HD digital output. I would contact Asus direct or try http://www.cyberlink.com
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No, the read speed of the drive would be more than adequate. Blu-ray video bitrate is 40Mbit/s max. Typical low end hard drive read speeds start around 100MB/sec (I don't have the specs for this particular drive, however).
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sorry, can't assist. I use it to write blu-rays from my PC,, have never needed to try and play using it, have a blu-ray player for that.
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Any blu ray drive will work, there is an aluminum cover that comes with the case that attaches to the front of the drive, to flush it up with the front of the case.
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I would invest in a DVD/CD USB drive for installation. Be sure to have all the drivers available on a flashdrive.
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Yes, you can. Process may not be simple though.Look here:http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Convert_Your_HD_DVDs_to_Blu-Rayhttp://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=155834
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Yes, very nicely, using with Win7 in a HTPC; doing a great job at that task.
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The drive was used in a nas-synology.. Works fine even as a media storage.. Not too sure abt htpc though..
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A standard optical drive is fine. If you have a very tall CPU heatsink AND a long drive there might be problems. I'm using the stock heatsink (3770k), somewhat tall RAM, and a standard sized blu-ray burner and everything fits just fine.
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You can put a Blue Ray drive in there. I have a DVD drive in mine which is the same size and form factor that of a Blue Ray drive. The parts up front easily pull out and easily snap back in to position.
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you can have it checked. if the drive bay is 9.5mm it should work. it worked with my gateway computer. and i love it. now i can play and burn blu-ray.
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It's highly unlikely that this will work on a Blu-Ray player. When you plug this in to a windows PC, the PC sees this as a thumb drive and allows you to load the windows drivers that are stored on the device. I also know that Fedora Linux 17 will load this device without needing any extra software.
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No, you can only install an external HD and yes the video out put is great but dont know if it is blueray quality, that would depend on the video source, the connection etc.
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No, this does not have a Blu Ray drive. I suppose you can put in one if you want. You can play most modern games on it though.
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Yes, you can. That's the main reason I bought it. Just make sure your HD is 2TB or less. It works great!
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It should work just fine but if your computer is still IDE and you should also look into getting a better graphics card for your computer for it to play blu-rays and you can find ones that will work just fine on amazon for around $25-$50