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LaCie Blue Ray + DVD+/- R/RW FireWire & USB 2.0 (301115U) | 
 enlarge | Brand: LaCie
Category: CE
List Price: $1,179.99
Buy New: $649.99
You Save: $530.00 (45%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Color: black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Apple MacOS X 10.3.9 or later
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 13.8 x 9.1 x 6.7
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: 301115U
Model: 301115U
UPC: 093053691899
EAN: 0093053691899
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Includes USB 2.0 Cable, 6-Pin to 6-Pin FireWire-400 Cable, External Power Supply, LaCie Utilities DVD-ROM with User Manual and Quick Install Guide | | • | 2x BD-R, 2x BD-RE, 8x DVD-R, 8x DVD-RW, 8x DVD-R DL, 8x DVD+R, 8x DVD+RW, 8x DVD+R DL, 32x CD-R, and 24x CD-RW Write Speed | | • | 2x BD-ROM, 12x DVD-ROM, and 32x CD-ROM Read Speed | | • | System Requirements - Pentium 4 Dual Core 3.0 GHz, Power PC G4, Mac Intel Core Duo, Windows XP SP2, Mac OS X 10.3.9, 512MB RAM, nVidia GeForce 6600GT or ATI X600 GPU required for HD video playback, 1280x1024 resolution required for HD video playback | | • | Dimensions - Weight 6.3 x Height 1.7 x Depth 10.6 (17.3x4.4x26.8cm) |
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Product Description
The d2 Blu-ray Drive from LaCie is an external Blu-ray disc burner that can also burn and read DVD and CD discs. It connects to your computer via either the FireWire-400 or USB 2.0 interfaces. The drive allows you to write data to single and dual-layer Blu-ray discs, which can hold up to 50 GB of data - more than 10 times that of a standard DVD-R. These high-capacity discs are ideal for data archiving, backup and HD video delivery. Video can be compressed using MPEG-2, AVC or VC-1 codec, allowing you to share HD video in stunning quality. Blu-ray delivers up to 8 channels of audio at 192-kHz/32 streams quality. This gives you high-quality audio to match the video quality that Blu-ray can deliver. The drive can be connected to a computer via FireWire-400 or USB 2.0. The burner is bundled with Easy Media Creator 8.2 and PowerDVD BD for Windows for disc burning and DVD video playback. Toast 7.1.1 Titanium is included for OS X, giving Mac users the ability to burn Blu-ray discs. Weight - 3.31 pounds (1.5 kg)
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| Customer Reviews:
Lacie Blu-Ray burner - WORKS! April 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just bought this external USB 2.0 Lacie Blu-Ray burner, and just burned my very first 25 GB data disk -> on a TDK BD-R 25 GB Blu-Ray blank. It seems to work! I used Roxio Create 8.2 XE (came with the Lacie Blu-Ray burner). Everything went very smoothly, but it did take A VERY VERY LONG TIME (as in several hours to burn 23 GB of data). The Roxio software reports "Target max burn speed 2.0x, Current burn speed: 0.97x" so basically I think it's burning the MONSTROUS 23 GB at 1x speed.
I am not interested in ever burning a movie, so I did not test that. I'm only doing permanent write-once backups of large amounts of data (like my iTunes MP3 collection).
The Roxio software came with TONS OF BLOATWARE, and as I said I'm only interested in the very most simple burning of data disks, so here are the steps I used to install the minimum:
1) Insert the Roxio install CD, run the "Setup" program.
2) Unselect **EVERYTHING** (yes, **EVERYTHING**) and continue
with the install. It still installs 3 things!
3) In Add/Remove programs, remove the "Drag to Disc" burner
functionality.
RESULT -> You are left with one piece of bloatware "Backup MyPC 7"
that I haven't figured out how to remove yet, and the one piece
of software you want "Roxio Creator 8.2 XE".
The Roxio Creator 8.2 XE is really super straight-forward and easy to use -> just drag directories onto the main window, then click the "Burn Disc" button. If you first insert a blank Blu-Ray disk, then it shows you have 25 GB to fill up (and shows a nice friendly bar showing how much you currently have selected). If instead you insert a DVD-R, it shows you have 4.7 GB to fill up, etc. Before burning it complained that some of my filenames had bad symbols in them ('#' is forbidden in the ISO filesystem it seems), and it listed the exact files for me, so I went in and fixed those up before burning. Overall a good experience.
-- BrianW, Palo Alto, CA
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