Aluminum housed desktop optical drive with USB 3.0 and M-DISC support for reliable ... Windows XP and later Includes: 16X External Blu-ray Burner; 0.6 meter (24") USB 3.0 Cable; External power ...

There’s a whole lot of interesting mechanics, optics, and electronics inside a Blu-ray drive, and [scanlime] a.k.a. [Micah Scott] thinks those bits can be reused for some interesting project.

Drive type Internal 16X Blu-ray Disc Rewriter, M-DISC Support. Access time : BD-ROM is 180 ms typ Interface: SATA (SATA 1.1a), Buffer Memory: 4 MB Operating System - Windows XP, Windows Vista ...