LaCie Blu-ray Burns at 8x

[exfileme]

For a whopping $449.99, you too can own the luxurious LaCie d2 Blu-ray drive, capable of writing up to eight times standard data writing rates.

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[Guest]

AMI? And the burner's interface? eSATA? IEEE1394?

 

[Tekkamanraiden]

"The drive supports both FireWire and USB 2.0, packs up to 50 GB of "

 

[Tindytim]

We finally have a Blu-ray drive that can beat those 20x DVD writers in speed, and it's by a large margin aswell (288 Mbps vs 211 Mbps).

 

[Luscious]

This drive won't make any sense until we see some 8x BD DL discs out there to burn on.

I wish media support was wider for Blu-ray and cheaper.

 

[bluzbrother]

Why would anyone pay that much? I paid that much for an entire HP desktop with a LG blu-ray burner 6x BD-R (granted it was refurbished). Remember when DVD burners were $400+? Sure seems like a waste of money... especially for the cost of media.

 

[Silluete]

whoaaa... a burner at same price with my pc cool...

 

[liemfukliang]

Anyone here using 20X DVD RW and burn the DVD at 20x? I have 16x dvd rw but only use 4x, 6 at much, 12 when I forgot setting in Nero.

 

[slapdashzero]

I second Luscious. It might as well be a 100x burner, for the media that's available right now. You'll never find 8x Blurays outside of NASA or something anyway.

 

[tenor77]

I'm not sure what's worse, showing up too early or too late, but either way there's not much reason or demand for this yet. Not sure when the average user would see this as neccessary, but I doubt anything above $200 is gonna generate much interest.

 

[FrustratedRhino]

While this drive isn't peticularly game changing the fact companies are pursuing this can maybe spur the disc manufacturers to push out 8x discs faster. If more companies push the envelope soon there will be nothing slower than 8x =)