LaCie doubles external d2 Blu-ray burn speed to 4x
By Darren Murph 
posted May 28th 2008 2:59PM
posted May 28th 2008 2:59PM
[Via Engadget Spanish]
posted May 28th 2008 2:59PM
The amount of electronics thrown away rather than recycled in 2007.
The EPA reports that 82% of electronics disposal in 2007 ended up in the garbage (mostly landfills) rather than a recycling center. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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Damn! News sure is coming fast today.
any luck burning ps3 backups?
Move the dot from that price tag 1 digit to the left and we'll talk again.
That would be equally hard. because 64.999$ is kinda hard to get change for, you would have to cut up a cent coin into tens. it would be complicated
Gas stations don't seem to have a problem with it.
yeah i know. they must have some complex system 0.o we should adapt it and make it the Engadget Blu Ray buying thing system.
EBRBTS
yesssss
I'll wait until they are 48x.
Exactly, burning 50 gigs at 4x would be awful.
4x READ SPEED. it is burning at 4 times the native read speed for the format!
Look at the data rate for a 1x blu-ray drive and a 1x CD drive. Bluray reads data inherently faster.
Read mechanism 405 nm laser:
1× at 36 Mbit/s
2× at 72 Mbit/s
4× at 144 Mbit/s
6× at 216 Mbit/s
12× at 432 Mbit/s
1x is just under 5MB/S
Meaning 4x is...
To compare, 1x CD-ROM is 150KB/s
How many terrabyte hardrives could i buy for this? Honestly, these are so not worth it.
The sad thing is that obviously in a few years the prices of these things will come down in price so drastically. I remember my first CD burner, 2X - internal. I think it was $150- 200 or something. That was a long, long, time before MP3 players or external storage and my goal was just creating my own mix cds. Ahhh ... memories.
Like "Blaine Oilver" stated, I'd much rather have a terrabyte hard drive. Not worth the money at all.
Aren't the discs like $25.00? Why do people need these again?
$620 at Safe Harbor Computers...im in!
Meh.
Can I use this on my 24" 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo IMAC?
Ah ... bliss. I can now sit back and enjoy the fruits of a single standard. This looks entirely purchasable, as opposed to being overlooked because of the standard wars.
Nice product!