Slot Loading laptop drives?

[ND40oz]

Anybody know of a good place to buy them? Can't find any at newegg, scan has a nice Sony Blu-Ray slot loader, but 80 quid is a little high and I'd rather buy in dollars so I don't have to pay VAT.

Something like this: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/sony-bc-5640h-01-slot-blu-ray-combo-drive-6x-bd-r-(reader-only)-8xdvd-rw-slim-sata-oem, but just DVD is fine, needs to be sata though.

Going to go in an FT03 (http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=FT03&area=usa) HTPC build.

[Mightymorff]

I just bought 2 of these a little while back from scan....

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/sony-ad-7690h-slot-8xdvdr-6xdvdplusdl-6xdvd-dl-dvdplusrw-x8-rwx6-x5-ram-notebook-sata-black

[Ketzer7]

I was looking into this as well as I was thinking of building a small system with an FT03 and a P67 mATX board (before they got yanked).

The options seem to be pretty slim (no pun intended :) ). These were the ones I was looking at:

Sony AD-7690H (http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Optiarc-AD-7690H-DVD-RAM-internal/dp/tech-data/B004CJKVO0)

Sony BC-5640H (http://www.excaliberpc.com/600332/sony-optiarc-bc-5640h-01-4x-bd-rom.html) (the one you mentioned)

Silverstone SOD02 (http://www.sundialmicro.com/silverstone-slim-optical-drive-sstsob02b_2101_2037.html)

There seem to be some other odd ball ones on Google shopping as well, but they look like mostly older drives, i.e. surplus or system pulls.

[ND40oz]

Thanks guys, slim pickings indeed. Figured I wouldn't have to spend so much for a dvd drive any more, may just wait for blu-ray versions to drop a little in price. The FT03 just hit Scan and I haven't changed any hardware around in a few months, I'm getting that itch...

[jacobroufa]

143 bones for a slim BluRay???? :bird: that. Guess my new media center's going to go awhile without a drive.

Thanks for the topic ND40oz! :up:

[ND40oz]

Yeah, I know, not even a blu-ray burner either. Hopefully with the release of the Sandy Bridge laptops taking place over the next month or two, we'll see more blu-ray equipped lappys which will bring the prices down.

[Kuro]

Yeah they do seem ridiculously expensive maybe just wait a bit?