Wednesday, May 28th 2008
LaCie Intros 4x Blu-ray External Burner
LaCie announced today that is has doubled Blu-ray burn speeds to 4x and has updated the aluminum alloy case and software suite for its external d2 Blu-ray drive. Coming with a shape designed by Neil Poulton, the drive records, rewrites and reads 25GB or 50GB BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable), as well as DVD±RW DL and CD±RW media. The 4x Blu-ray burner ships with a full-featured Roxio software package and dual FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 connection options. The drive also boasts 8MB of buffer memory. "In early 2007, LaCie was the first vendor to ship worldwide an external solution for professional Hi-Def video recording for both Mac and Windows. Since that time, Blu-ray technology has proven to be the dominant source for video recording and playback," said Patrick Salin, LaCie Business Development Manager. LaCie d2 Blu-ray drives are available now via LaCie's specialized dealer network with a suggested retail price of $649.99 and 2 year warranty. For more product information, visit this page.
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26 Comments on LaCie Intros 4x Blu-ray External Burner
The bandwidth ISNT wasted on a burner. USB 2.0 is capped around 30MB/s, which may well be the speed limit for a DVD burner but bluray is a lot faster. 4x burning on bluray, someone said earlier was 18MB/s - firewire would sustain that a lot better, without the hiccups of USB (USB tends to be unreliable for this i have a USB DVD drive and despite the fact it has enough bandwidth in theory, it takes 3x longer to copy a DVD off that than it does connecting the drive directly via IDE.)