How badly have you Mac users wanted to have your very own Blu-ray burner? No matter, you can do it now. MCE Technologies has released a $699 Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive so that you can use a disc instead of an external hard drive. One nice thing is that if you happen to want the Blu-ray burner but you think that you’d also like to have a regualar CD and DVD burner, this drive is backwards compatible. For every drive you buy, you also recieve a copy of Toast 8 Titanium as well as a 25GB Blu-ray (BD-RE) rewritable disc. And just look at the picture, it looks cool too! Still, $700 is a killing…
Specifications
Media | Write (max) | Read (max) |
BD-R (Single Layer/Double Layer) | 2x (9MB/sec) | 2x (9MB/sec) |
BD-RE (Single Layer/Double Layer) | 2x (9MB/sec) | 2x (9MB/sec) |
BD-ROM | N/A | 2x (9MB/sec) |
DVD-RAM | 5x (6.9MB/sec) | 5x (6.9MB/sec |
DVD-R (Single Layer/Dual Layer) | 8x(SL) (11MB/sec) / 4x(DL) (5.5MB/sec) | 8x (11MB/sec) |
DVD-RW | 6x (8.3MB/sec) | 8x (11MB/sec) |
DVD+R (Single Layer/Double Layer) | 8x(SL) (11MB/sec)/ 4x(DL) (5.5MB/sec) | 8x (11MB/sec) |
DVD+RW | 8x (11MB/sec) | 8x (11MB/sec) |
DVD-ROM | N/A | 8x (11MB/sec) |
CD-R | 24x (3.6MB/sec) | 32x (4.8MB/sec) |
CD-RW | 16x (2.4MB/sec) | 24x (3.6MB/sec) |
CD-ROM | N/A | 32x (4.8MB/sec) |
— Nik Gomez