"Mike, In response to the request for suggestions on Blu-Ray /Writer case combinations (in yesterday's news). I couldn't wait for the newer GGW-H20L but have the GGW-H10N which is the 1st Gen Blu-Ray/HD Combo drive. I installed mine in the Cooldrives OPT525-EXTE case and use the 2 port eSATA Express card also from cooldrives, the combination works very well. The cooldrives case is a bit bulky but at the moments there aren't many cases to choose from. I have used a variety of Sony and Maxwell BD-RE/R media with toast and have had 100% successful burns using my Macbook Pro 10.5/2Ghz/2Gb. Burned disks including Divx movies encoded with toast also work fine in my PS3.

I have VISTA ultimate installed on my bootcamp partition and can confirm that this combination also runs well using PowerDVD Ultra. I do occasionally get choppy video with Blu Ray discs when I have tried to watch a movie, this maybe due to VISTA drivers, I only have one HD/DVD movie which I didn't notice any problems with. I also tried to use this drive with XP under Parallels connected via USB2 but didn't have much success, probably would fair better with a clean install of XP.
Overall I am happy with Expresscard/Drive/Case combination.
Leslie
Lime Design - Graphic & Print Solutions"

I've also added the above to the page of MacBook Pro owner reports on Express34 Cards and as a drive db report.

Blu-Ray Drives:
• Expresscard SATA connected LG GGW-H10N (1st gen Blu-Ray/DVD/HD-DVD) used w/MacBook Pro (OS X 10.5.1)
  (includes notes on Toast and Boot Camp/Windows BR Movie use, drive in SATA ext. case)
• USB (USB to SATA adapter) LG GGW-H20L. (6x max BR write, 16x max DVD writes, 40x max CDR writes + HD-DVD Player) used w/MacBook Pro (OS X 10.5.1)
  (added yesterday from news post - includes notes on some issues seen)
  
  Hard Drives:
• IDE Western Digital WD2500BEVE 250GB in (AL) PowerBook G4 (OS X 10.4.11)
  (includes notes/links on take-apart)

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