Buffalo will start shipping 8x Blu-ray burners in Japan. The company will release it’s external USB2.0/eSATA drive, named BR-816SU2 and its internal SATA drive with model name BR-816FBS next month. Both drives are OEMs of the Panasonic SW-5584 Blu-ray burner and support 8x on single layer BD-R discs, 2x for dual layer BD-R and BD-RE discs and have an 8MB buffer.
The maximum recording speed of 8x can be achieved only when the external drive is connected through the eSATA interface. When connected using USB 2.0 the BD-R burning speed is limited at 6.5x.
Besides Blu-ray burning the drives support 16x burning for DVD-R/DVD+R, 5x for DVD-RAM, 8x for DVD-R/+R DL, 6x for DVD-RW and 8x for DVD+RW. CD-R’s are burned at 48x and CD-RW’s at 24x.
3 Comments
- guest
- Posts: 15284
- Posted on: 25 Jul 08 21:23
Price?
That makes them approx. $362 USD to $412 USD.
Most popular headlines
PSGroove PS3 jailbreak hack now runs off smartphones (1)
- Tue 7 Sep 00:00 by wconeybeer
- Game Consoles, Mobile Phones
If you have the right smartphone, you may not need to purchase any special equipment to use the PSGroove jailbreak exploit on your Sony PS3. A rework known as PSFreedom has been created to allow homebrew enthusiasts with certain Linux-based phones to run the code necessary to unlock their console.
PSJailbreak PS3 mod ban permanent, while free solution is unveiled (4)
- Fri 3 Sep 21:04 by wconeybeer
- Game Consoles, Piracy
An Australian court has make a decision today to permanently uphold their temporary ban on the PS3 PS Jailbreak USB modchip dongle just as a new free solution, PS Groove, has hit the internet with instructions and step-by-step instructional videos going viral.
PSGroove released: Open Source PS3 hack, PSJailbreak competitor (1)
- Wed 1 Sep 19:09 by Randomus
- Game Consoles
Sony PlayStation 3 owners now have yet another jailbreak to choose from when looking to unlock their game console, as the open source PSGroove PSJailbreak has been released.
Sony blocks PS3 USB hack exploits with new firmware update (1)
- Tue 7 Sep 16:00 by wconeybeer
- Game Consoles
Everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before Sony pushed out a new firmware update to block the exploit that allowed the PSJailbreak and PSGroove hacks to function. Apparently, that time has arrived.
