LaCie doubles burn speeds to 4x for d2 Blu-ray Drive
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 03:11 PM ESTLaCie announced today that is has doubled burn speeds to 4x for its d2 Blu-ray Drive and has updated the aluminum alloy case and software suite. 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. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive come fully equipped with Roxio burning software and dual FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces.
“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, in the press release. “Burning up to 50GB of data can take a reasonable amount of time, so doubling burn speeds not only increases work performance, but provides a cost-effective, long-term archival process for storing data to sturdy scratch-resistant media.
LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drives come with full-featured Roxio software including Toast Titanium for Mac and Easy Media Creator for Windows. Toast Titanium and Easy Media Creator products are easy-to-use burning applications that provide a timesaving solution for regularly backing up important files at an impressive data transfer rate.
Blu-ray 50GB discs offer 10x more capacity than a single layer DVD. This increased capacity gives professionals the freedom to choose much higher bit rate codecs when mastering content, ultimately improving picture quality. For increased audio quality, Blu-ray technology allows for up to eight channels of 192kHz/32 audio streams.
LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drives are available now and widely available via LaCie’s specialized dealer network at the suggested retail price of US$649.99.
More product information here.
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I see blu ray lasting not so long..... scratch proof is kinda cool though... but I see flash media taking over discs, though for archival I guess a scratch proof disc would be better than just buying a hard even if drives are insanely cheap these days.