Plextor PX-B310U BD Combo Super Multi Drive Review

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Introduction

Review: Plextor PX-B310U
Reviewed by: Vroom
Provided by: Plextor Europe
Firmware: 1.07
Manufactured: April 2010

Plextor was kind enough to send us the PX-B310U external Blu-Ray combo drive for a review. The Drive supports 6x reading on SL blu-ray, and it supports writing and reading of DVD±R/RW, DVD-RAM and CD-RW media.

Drive Specifications


Here are the specifications off the PX-B310U that we found on the Plextor site.

Packaging


Let’s take a look at the packaging.

Front side.

Back side.

Top side.

Both rear sides.

 

What’s inside the box


Now it’s time to take a look at the drive itself and what the drive came shipped with.

 

Our retail package contained the PX-B310U drive, the power supply unit, instructions manual, USB cable, a cleaning cloth and two software cd’s and also a base to allow vertical mount of the drive.

Now let’s take a closer look at the drive.

A general view of the drive.

The front side of the drive is very stylish, as we can see it has the Blu-RayDisc logo, also the dvd and cd logos, it has an emergency eject hole, and the eject button, and a sliver line in the middle.

Drive top.

Drive bottom

The label indicates that the drive was manufactured in April 2010 in China.

On the rear side we have the USB connector and the DC IN connector, and the on off switch.

Now let’s head on to the next page were we can take a look at the features of the drive….