LaCie doubles Blu-ray burn speed

Posted on 5 Jun 2008 at 10:21

LaCie has doubled the speed of its desktop Blu-ray drive. The drive can now burn at 4x, reaching 18MB/sec when storing up to to 25GB or 50GB on BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable) discs.

The drive provides both USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces and is also a fully-fledged CD and DVD reader and writer. LaCie has also updated the Roxio software supplied with the drive.

Patrick Salin, LaCie business development manager, said that since the company shipped its first BD drive in early 2007, Blu-ray has proved to be the dominant source for video recording and playback.

"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,"he said.

The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive is available now with a suggested retail price of £609.90 (inc. VAT).

Author: Simon Aughton

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