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" ... One of the More Affordable External Blu-ray Drives
on the Block." -PC Magazine
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OWC Mercury Pro 8x Blu-ray LG Super Multi Blue External Optical Solution
Read, write, & label your Blu-ray, DVD, and CD media with this all-in-one easy to use solution.
The next generation of storage technology. Upgrade your system with an external Blu-ray burner!
With the OWC Mercury Pro 8x Blu-ray LG Super Multi Blue External Optical Solution you can archive massive amounts of data (up to 50GB per disc!), and start creating DVDs using your own family and friends as the stars!
The Super Multi Blue supports BluRay Disc burning at speeds up to 8x, DVD burning at 16x and up to 48x burning for CDs! You can store up to 50GB on a single disc, faster than ever!
- Supports the burning of up to 50GB of data or high definition video per Blu-ray disc, or up to 8.5GB using low-cost Dual Layer DVDs.
- Has everything you will need to get up and burning with ease! Offering true Plug & Play, it's never been easier to get started creating your own DVDs.
- Four interface types! FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA! With so many interface choices, it's compatible with virtually any system!
- Includes two 25GB pieces of retail Panasonic write-once media.
It doesn't even stop there. Once all your burning has been done, the Super Multi Blue's LightScribe technology means you can print custom labels right onto the disc, without inconvenient and clumsy adhesive labels. Simply burn the data to a LightScribe disc, flip the disc over, place it back in the drive, and "burn" the label on the other side.
Blu-ray Burning On Macs Now Made Easy!
Read our How-To here.
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 "OWC Mercury Blu-ray External
While hard drives are cheap these days, serious shooters often back up image files to recordable DVDs because they're less vulnerable to physical damage and can be easily stored in multiple locations. The capacity of these disks is limited to 8GB, however. Enter the Blu-ray format, which squeezes up to six times the data on the same size disc. Blu-ray disks are relatively expensive -- about $17 for a 25GB single-layer and $35 for 50GB dual-layer -- but prices are likely to fall when the new format's high-density rival, High-Definition DVD (HD DVD), offers writable disks. (HD DVD is currently limited to read-only movies.)
Even 2X Blu-ray writers like the OWC Mercury, an external drive, are cheaper than their 1X predecessors. This one uses a Panasonic mechanism that allows recording of 25GB in about 45 minutes, a rate of 9MB/second. The one we tested came with Roxio Toast 8 Titanium, which we needed because the Mac OS X we used doesn't offer native support for Blu-ray burning. The Mercury's rugged plastic case has a cooling fan along with three data ports, two Firewire and one USB 2.0."
Click here to read the entire article. |
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Get ready to be creative, the possibilities are endless with the OWC Mercury Pro!
*Apple software currently does not support Blu-ray drives, but the DVD and CD burning/reading portions of the OS do function. It is expected a future release of the OS will add Blu-ray support and the ability to display HD Blu-ray video.
| Chipset: |
Oxford 934DSB |
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Interface: |
- FireWire 800 (1394b) - 2 Ports
- FireWire 400 (1394a) - 1 Port
- eSATA - 1 Port
- USB 2.0 (1.1 Backwards Compatible) - 1 Port
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Format: |
External |
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Mechanism: |
LG Electronics Super Multi Blue 8x SATA Blu-ray Recordable Drive with LightScribe |
| Buffer: |
4MB |
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Write Speed: |
- BD-R (SL/DL): 8x Max
- BD-R (SL L to H): 2x Max
- BD-RE (SL/DL): 2x Max
- DVD+R: 16x Max
- DVD+R (DL): 4x Max
- DVD+RW: 8x Max
- DVD-R: 16x Max
- DVD-R (DL): 4x Max
- DVD-RW: 6x Max
- DVD-RAM: 5x Max
- CD-R: 48x Max
- CD-RW: 24x Max
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Read Speed: |
- BD-R (SL/DL): 8x Max
- BD-R (SL L to H): 4x Max
- BD-RE (SL/DL): 4.8x Max
- BD-ROM (SL/DL): 8x Max
- BDMV (AACS Conpliant Disc): 4.8x Max
- DVD+R: 16x Max
- DVD+R (DL): 8x Max
- DVD+RW: 10x Max
- DVD-R: 16x Max
- DVD-R (DL): 8x Max
- DVD-RW: 10x Max
- DVD-ROM: 16x Max
- DVD-ROM (DL): 12x Max
- DVD-RAM: 5x Max
- CD-ROM: 48x Max
- CD-R: 48x Max
- CD-RW: 40x Max
- CD-DA (DAE): 40x Max
- 8mm CD: 16x Max
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Data Capacity: |
- 50GB BD-R (Double Layer)
- 25GB BD-R (Single Layer)
- 8.5GB (Double Layer DVD+/-R DL Disc, General Use)
- 4.6GB (DVD General Use)
- 700 MB (79 min. disk)
- 650 MB (74 min. disk)
- 550MB (63 min. disk)
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| Lightscribe Note: |
LightScribe requires USB interface (FireWire not supported) and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. |
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Loading Mechanism: |
Tray |
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Supported Formats: |
- BD-ROM (SL/DL)
- BD-RE (SL/DL)
- BD-R (SL/DL)
- DVD-ROM (SL/DL)
- DVD-R (SL/DL)
- DVD-RW
- DVD+R (SL/DL)
- DVD+RW
- DVD-RAM
- CD-ROM
- CD-ROM XA-Ready
- CD-I
- Photo-CD (Single & Multi-Session)
- Video-CD
- CD-Audio Disc
- Mixed Mode
- CD-ROM (Data and Audio)
- CD-Extra
- CD-Text
- CD-R
- CD-RW
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Recording Modes: |
- Disc-at-Once
- Session-at-Once
- Track-at-Once
- Packet Writing (variable and fixed)
- Multi-Session
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| Sustained Data Transfer Rate: |
- BD-ROM: 287.72 Mbits/s (8x max.)
- DVD-ROM: 22.16 Mbytes/s (16x max.)
- CD-ROM: 7,200 Kbytes/s (48x max.)
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| Average Access Time: |
- BD-ROM: 180 msec (Typical)
- DVD-ROM: 160 msec (Typical)
- DVD-RAM: 180 msec (Typical)
- CD-ROM: 150 msec (Typical)
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| OWC has tested and qualified the following cards for use with the eSATA interface port on your OWC Mercury Pro Optical Solution: |
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Apple iTunes Support
Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther": |
This drive fully supports burning using Apple iTunes when PatchBurn 3 (available here) is used. Installation is a simple one-click process. |
Apple DiscBurner Support
Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther": |
This drive fully supports burning using Apple DiscBurner when PatchBurn 3 (available here) is used. Installation is a simple one-click process. |
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Mac OS 9 Notes: |
This drive is not supported under Mac OS 9 or earlier. |
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Operating System: |
Macintosh with FireWire Interface and OS X 10.3 and above or PC with FireWire interface and Windows 98 or other OS with FireWire Support. USB 2.0 requires Windows 2000 or later, or Mac OS X. |
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Installation: |
Horizontal |
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Case Dimensions: |
7.5" x 2.5" x 10.5" |
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Warranty: |
1 Year OWC Warranty |
