My main purpose of the drive is to try to read and write as many standard formats as possible (CD, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-DL RW, BDXL RE, etc. This comes second to just trying to get a quality burner that supports BDXL and UHD though.

Since the upgraded Motherboard/CPU now supports UHD (Yes, I am well aware of all the hoops one needs to jump through to make this work on a PC) I wanted to replace it with a newer drive that has more support for the newer formats, and could possibly let me rip all the movies I have on disk since I have been getting quite the collection recently and it's becoming a bit of a pain to deal with them physically. Apparently, Pioneer drives are great, but they are not compatible with LibreDrive.I currently have an internal Blu-Ray burner in my desktop that supports up to Dual-Layer. Apparently, only ASUS and LG-Hitachi drives are compatible with LibreDrive, and I haven't read good reviews from LG-Hitachi drives in this forum. If my drive is faulty, I would like to know a good burner that can be patched with a LibreDrive firmware.

Is my drive faulty? Are the discs faulty? All the BD-R DL discs I burned with my previous drive (the ASUS BW-12B1ST with VERBAT-IMf-000 discs) don't have these weird dots/spots on their surfaces. I was able to copy all the data back to my SSD and I even compared the original files with WinMerge to check if the data was corrupted, but all files matched, so all the data on the disc is correct. I also noticed that the BD-R DL disc has some dots/spots on the burnable surface.

The disc verification failed when ImgBurn started verifying Layer 1. I just burned a BD-R DL disc (VERBAT-IMf-000) on my ASUS BW-16D1HT (patched with MakeMKV's LibreDrive firmware) for the first time and the results have not been very good.

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