Request for Tips/Advice! Would love to know if I'm buying the wrong drive, exercising a bad practice unknowingly, or whatever else you might suggest to either improve the longevity of my optical drive I'll get in the future/prevent failure in general.

Hi Y'all, I'm newer to rippin' discs, and I've had great success flashing and extracting UDH/Blu-Ray/DVD data using the LG Slim BP60NB10 drive! The results are excellent 99% of the time! The problem is, I've ripped an assortment of these kinds of discs (largely UHD and Blu Ray, about 70/30) and have fried two drives in the process. I want to avoid continuing to waste money on yet another drive and practices that might be damaging them, and I don't know what to do.

My general process:

- 3 - 6 discs on average per-day (2-4 if they're mostly UHD / ~80GB files).

- Give the drive ~15 - 30 min rest in between rip-cycles, to give the hardware a chance to cool off and "recover."

If it helps, here's a summary of the errors I saw on my most recent drive failure (forgive the LLM summary if it sounds stupid, I simply don't have the time or energy to go back and summarize it line by line manually):

• Drive disconnected mid-rip with "Posix error - No such device" on /dev/sr0
• Kernel logged usb 3-1: USB disconnect during active rip sessions
• dmesg showed repeated "Hardware Error" SCSI Sense Key errors with "Logical unit has not self-configured yet" and "Timeout on logical unit"
• Sustained read speed consistently low at 7-8 MB/s on standard Blu-ray (expected 36-54 MB/s)
• "Scsi error - MEDIUM ERROR: NO SEEK COMPLETE" — laser/head couldn't seek to correct position
• "Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST: INVALID FIELD IN CDB" — drive rejecting basic read commands
• "Posix error - Remote I/O error" on /dev/sr0 during rip attempt
• Drive eventually failing to spin up discs at all — inconsistent spin attempts, clicking sounds, disc not recognized
• Final state: drive shows up in lsusb (USB interface alive) but kernel logs no disc insertion events — optical mechanism completely unresponsive
• Drive model: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BP60NB10, firmware 1.02, connected via USB 2.0 bus-powered

Thanks in advance for any tips or advice you might provide!