I'm buiding my own external enclosure for slot-loading Blu-Ray and TB hard disk drive (both SATA). The interface will be FireWire 800 and e-SATA.
I presume that these drives have driver support in OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion)?
Thanks,
iX
You presume wrongly, certainly as far as Blu-Ray is concerned. You'll have to ask the manufacturer if they supply Mac drivers.
The HD shouldn't need drivers, but I'm not sure if that will be the case with a custom enclosure.
http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?products_id=338
1. It's not SATA.
2. BR burners are available for 1/4 that price.
http://www.macworld.com/article/160977/2011/07/blu_ray_movie_playback_comes_to_t he_mac.html
OK, so that one means for playing BR that doesn't work.
So how have you helped me? Simply returning Google hits isn't helpful. It's "noise".
In terms of just burning Blu-Ray data discs I do not believe you need any drivers or special software. You can pretty much also use any make/model of Blu-Ray burner to do this. However have a look at http://eshop.macsales.com/search/internal+blu+ray
If however you want to make and burn Blu-Ray movie discs then Toast from Roxio can make (very) simple Blu-Ray movie discs and incorporate your own HD video. See http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/plugin/overview.html
In terms of playing back commercial Blu-Ray movies, then your options are limited. You can do this fully if you use Boot Camp to installed Windows 7 and a suitable application. Otherwise you can use http://www.macblurayplayer.com/ however this cannot play the proper Blu-Ray menu, what it does is automatically find what it believes is the main movie and jumps to and plays that. It claims it can properly play the full Dolby TrueHD audio track although Apple themselves do not support this.
I have an LG Bluray drive in a BYTECC enclosure
that has FW800/USB2.0/SATA interfaces. Obviously,
there is no SATA on the Mac but the FW800 and
USB2.0 work just fine. Also, there are no drivers
needed the chipsets support USB and FW800
Mass Storge Device protocols. I got mine
at Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681714506
The package can also accomodate 3.5 hard drives
up to 2 terrabyte.
And as for Blurays, you can watch them using
the Macgo software, although their multichannel
audio isn't quite there yet, the movies look great
played back on a 1080p display. There are other
means to get Bluray content playback, but they
can't be discussed here as the methods are
illegal in most civilized countries.
Blu-Ray slot optical drive support?
