Other World Computing announced today that it has upgraded the OWC Mercury Pro External Blu-ray Optical Drive to professional grade 16X BD-R write speeds, 128GB BDXL compatibility, and high-speed USB 3.0 connectivity.
Read and Write Double, Triple, Quad Layer BD-R Discs
In addition to single and double layer BD-R discs, the Mercury Pro External offers expanded support for up to 100GB of data on triple layer BDXL-R/BDXL RE discs and up to 128GB on quad layer BDXL-R discs. For comparison, 128GBs of data on a single quad layer BDXL disc is the equivalent of 27 standard DVDs or five single layer Blu-ray discs.
“Optical drives are still a vital component of any desktop or mobile computer for affordable data backup and archiving,” said Larry O’Connor, Founder and CEO, Other World Computing. “And the Mercury Pro External offers best-in-class speed, features, and compatibility for all users.”
Fast and Flexible
The USB 3.0, FireWire 800, and FireWire 400 multi-interface data connection options provide the throughput to support fast 16X write speeds. From 640MB CD-Rs to 128GB BDXL media, the Mercury Pro External Blu-ray optical drive provides the right speed and data capacities for every size project.
Key Features Include:
- Read and write all Blu-ray formats.
- Includes everything needed to get up and burning with ease.
- High-quality, double shielded FireWire 800 (1394b) connecting cable (9-9 pin cable)
- High-quality, double Shielded USB 3.0 Standard-B to Standard-A cable
- Large Buffer Memory: 4MB
- RoHS Compliant
- 1 Year OWC Limited Warranty
- Software: Prosoft Engineering Data Backup 3, Smile DiscLabel software for labels and jewel case inserts, Roxio Toast 11 Titanium media toolkit with Blu-ray support (optional)
Availability:
The OWC Mercury Pro External Blu-ray optical drive is available today from OWC and select retailers. For more information, visit: eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MR3F8BDSD16/
The OWC Mercury Pro External Blu-ray optical drive is also available with Roxio Toast 11 Titanium media toolkit software. For more information, visit: eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MR3F8BDSD16S/
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They havent invented the 128gb disc for the market yet how are they going to realase it. If they do probably next year!
And where do you buy the fictitious/nonexistant “up to 128GB on quad layer BDXL-R discs” ? I see everything has 100GB, but not 128GB.
We’ve been watching for them to come to market as well. So far, we haven’t seen availability on the quad-layer BDXL-R discs.
We do carry the triple-layer 100GB discs. However, with the almost $40 average price per disk currently for the triple-layer media, I suspect that the assuredly higher cost for the quads has been keeping them from widespread availability.
Seems the M-DISC 25GB disks should be ready in less than 2 weeks
http://www.mdisc.com/catalog/
Sure is. That’s why the Blu-Ray media will be added to our offerings soon.
That’s great to hear. Thanks! Just ordered one. Does it support the MDisc DVDs as well?
Kevin
Yes, we have the M-Disc DVD media available currently and the Blu-Ray media will be added to our offerings soon.
Oops, I see on the “more info” page that M-Disc is supported. It appears this is for DVD only, however is that correct? Or does it support writing to Blu-Ray M-Disc, too?
Thanks.
Kevin
The optical drive mechanism will indeed support M-Disc Blu-ray media once it becomes available.
Does it support either (or both)
M-Disc DVDs
and/or
M-Disc Blu-Ray discs?
Thanks!
Kevin