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Review: Sony BWU-300S |
Sony Optiarc was kind enough to send us the BWU-300S Blu-ray writer for review. The drive supports Blu-ray writing and reading, in addition, this drive also supports DVD±R/RW, DVD-RAM and CD-R/RW writing.
It’s always exciting to get hold of a new piece of technology, especially when the leap in technology is so far reaching as Blu-ray offers, with much improved storage capacity, the possibility of being able to watch movies in High Definition, bringing a completely new viewing experience.
In this review we will be testing out the latest Blu-ray burner, the BWU-300S from Sony, one of the world’s largest and most respected electronics manufacturers.
The Sony Optiarc BWU-300S supports 8x BD-R, 2x BD-RE, 16x DVD±R, 8x/6x DVD+RW/-RW, and 8x DVD+R DL/-R DL writing technology, allowing Blu-ray discs of 50GB and DVD Double/Dual Layer discs of 8.5GB to be written. In addition, the Sony BWU-300S also supports DVD-RAM reading and writing at 5x, and CD-R/RW writing speeds of 48x/24x.
Company Information
Sony Optiarc started as a joint-venture with Sony and NEC but since December 2008, Optiarc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony
Drive Specifications
We found the specifications of the Sony BWU-300S at the Sony website
What’s inside the box
Now it’s time to take a look at the drive itself and what the drive came shipped with.
Packaging
Our drive was the boxed retail version
Box front
Box rear
Box left and right sides
Box top
Box contents
The Sony BWU-300S retail package contain the BWU-300S drive, alternate black disk drawer cover, SATA data lead, fixing screws, SATA power adapter, instruction manual, and software disk.
Now let’s take a look at the drive.
The bezel of the Sony BWU-300S is nicely styled. We can also see various logos, an emergency eject hole, single green LED and an eject button.
Drive top
Drive bottom
On the top of the drive we found two labels and we can see the drive was manufactured in China during September 2008.
On the rear of the drive we can see from left to right, SATA power and data connectors.
Now let’s head on to the next page were we can take a look at the features of the drive….
