LaCie Doubles the Burn Speed of Its High-Capacity Blu-ray Drive

[btarunr]

LaCie announced that it has doubled the speed at which its high-performance, large-capacity LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive burns discs to eight times (8x) standard data writing rates. The increased speed to burn files applies to both single and dual-layer discs. LaCie also has upgraded the authoring and backup software that ships standard with the product.

The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive packs up to 50 GB of data, or four hours of high-definition video, on a single Blu-ray disc – making it an ideal tool for video professionals and anyone who wants to backup and store significant amounts of data on reliable removable media. It sports both FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces for high-speed throughput between the drive and a PC or Mac.



“With the doubling of the speed to burn Blu-ray discs, video professionals will be able to spend more time creating content and less time on production,” said Christelle Dexet, Multimedia Product Manager for LaCie. “And for those who need to safely store large quantities of information for extended periods of time on secure removable media, the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive is an ideal solution.”

The exceptionally quiet LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive comes bundled with the newly revised Easy Media Creator 10 and Toast 9 Titanium software. The easy-to-use software lets Mac and Windows users master video and audio files onto Blu-ray, DVD and CD discs. With the tools customers can also schedule backups for data files, edit videos, create audio mixes and much more.

Plus, users can work with three popular codexes—MPEG2, AVC and VC-1—when creating their Blu-ray content. And the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive supports a dozen Blu-ray, DVD and CD formats, including BD-ROM, BD-ROM AACS, BD-R, BD-RE, DVD±R, CD-R and others.

Availability
The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive is available now and starts at $449.99. LaCie products are available through the LaCie Online Store or LaCie resellers. For more information, visit www.lacie.com.

Source: LaCie

[Apocolypse007]

nice speed, but not worth the price unless you are a video professional.

[Necrofire]

8x burning speed is pushing it. The max transfer speed I've seen through usb is about 34MB/s, and 8x blu-ray is 36MB/s at the end of the disc.

[tigger]

Try transfering 30gb to a usb portable hdd,and you'll see how slow usb is.As far as i'm concerned,its for peripherals,and not portable storage.

[R_1]

It's no-match for cheap 1.5TB 3.5" HDD. Simply 120$ for HDD + 20$ for external enclosure = 900$ (for 30 double layer 50GB disks) + 450$ (for LaCie d2 Blu-ray Driv). These BR disks are write-once and USB connection means max 20MB/s transfer rate for recording and playing. So 50GB means ~45 min time to record/play. Compare this to 7 min time, that will take the HDD to transfer 50GB data and you can write/rewrite as many as you like on a HDD drive.

[Apocolypse007]

Originally Posted by R_1

It's no-match for cheap 1.5TB 3.5" HDD. Simply 120$ for HDD + 20$ for external enclosure = 900$ (for 30 double layer 50GB disks) + 450$ (for LaCie d2 Blu-ray Driv). These BR disks are write-once and USB connection means max 20MB/s transfer rate for recording and playing. So 50GB means ~45 min time to record/play. Compare this to 7 min time, that will take the HDD to transfer 50GB data and you can write/rewrite as many as you like on a HDD drive.

I'd just get one of those portable "passport" drives. Even cheaper.