BR reader for PC recommendation

[Valnar]

I'm looking for a BR reader (DVD R/W) drive that is good for ripping music CD's too. I care about Sample Offset, Caching, C2 Errors and Accurate Stream with EAC. I could keep an old Plextor laying around, but I'd rather not!

What is a good drive for reading everything, from BR to DVD to CD? Slightly used is fine too if I have to hit eBay.

[jman98]

EAC had and may possibly still have a bug where rips from BD drives of CDs take FOREVER. Like HOURS to per disc. This is on ALL brands of BD drives. I really don't know if it ever got fixed or not, but the author was aware of it. It's so bad that I gave up using EAC and now I use CDex. I don't rip CDs very often and when I do, I want it to work in tens of minutes at worst, not hours.

I don't know if there actually are BD readers. You said "BR" but you mean "BD". BD, as in BluRay Disc, is the accepted abbreviation for BluRay, not BR. Pioneer made the best BD drive I've ever used (and it's a writer), but my model is old. If they still make BD drives, any Pioneer should be OK. Few of the people here are as picky as you about CD ripping so honestly you may need to ask this question at some other forum where you're more likely to find people who are really into this sort of thing and can talk technical details with you.

[usually_quiet]

BD-ROM - DVD R/W combo drives from ASUS, LG, and Pioneer are still being sold by Newegg although there are not many to pick from, and their model numbers indicate that they are not recent designs. There aren't many BD burners to pick from either, but the model numbers indicate they are newer designs.

A BD-ROM - DVD R/W combo drive can cost nearly as much as a comparable BD burner at present, although that was not true in the past. Right now, with sale prices and a promo code, the least expensive LG BD-ROM - DVD R/W combo drive and the least expensive LG BD burner are the same price at Newegg.

[Valnar]

I decided not risk my CD ripping/burning setup, and since ripping Blu-rays will be less common overall, I went with an external USB3 drive instead. Thanks everyone.