Are there any 5.25" Slot loading drives anymore?

[westrock2000]

I'm doing an audio project and would like a slot loading drive. But all I can find are the USB "slim" drives and so far I have had horrible performance with ripping audio CD's on USB slim drives.

I thought I remember some DVD drives having slots...like Pioneer maybe, but I'm not finding any.....EDIT: Looks like those were almost 15 years ago!

 

[chenw]

http://www.digistor.com/products/In...n-Internal-Blu-ray-Burner-Slot-Load-DIG-68100

No idea if that's really a 5.25" or a slim drive with a 5.25" slot enclosure.

 

[westrock2000]

I saw that, and aside from the price, there were too many give aways suggesting its a laptop drive. The thin rectangular cut out on the front is laptop form factor. The little 45* angle at the back of the unit is dead give away of a laptop unit.

 

[dwd999]

It used to be that the Panasonic UJ-265 was the only slot loader available but now supplies are scarce.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7BJ35N2839

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Panasonic/UJ265/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_campaign=cj

I tried one and its kind of slow, slower than the last SonyOptiarc slot drive that I have. But I never had any quality problems.

 

[Dullard]

I have two of those slim "notebook" drives with the 45 degree cut corner in cases and one I keep around with a SATA cable and SATA to mini power cable if I need to hook an optical up to anything else. They work fine in regular PCs, but they are trays and not slots.

Looks like the ones I used are NLA now.

https://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-BDR-...00KWHJWXM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

 

[CaptNumbNutz]

It used to be that the Panasonic UJ-265 was the only slot loader available but now supplies are scarce.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7BJ35N2839

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Panasonic/UJ265/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_campaign=cj

I tried one and its kind of slow, slower than the last SonyOptiarc slot drive that I have. But I never had any quality problems.

It was replaced by the UJ-267 around 3-4 years ago, and now even the 267 is difficult to find. I know because I bought the UJ-267 a couple years ago for my Silverstone FT05 build. I'm contemplating removing it as I have used it only 3 times in the past 2 years.

Considering the Macbook line hasn't got an upgrade in several years, and many high end laptops are simply leaving out optical drives altogether, there hasn't been much demand for a slim slot load blu-ray drive.

 

[dwd999]

But I don't think they sold the UJ-267 with the faceplate that you need on some slim case installations. At least with the UJ-265 they gave you a faceplate.