First Blu-ray Disc Writer For PC Gets Reviewed

Mike Howes 17 Mar, 2006 at 3:57pm ET Article published in Tech

The Register reports that Samsung is the first manufacturer with a PC Blu-ray drive ready to go…
It looks just like your average DVD writer, with one small difference: the big Blu-ray Disc logo on the left-hand side of the face-plate.

View: Samsung SH-B022 Blu-ray Disc writer review

The SH-B022 supports 2x writing speed, around 9MBps which equates to about 7x in DVD writing speeds. Considering that you have the ability to write 25GB to a single-layer disc, this isn’t that fast as you’ll see from the tests.

The single 12.7GB file took 25m 31s to write, so it’ll take roughly twice that to fill up the whole disc. Doing the same test, but with the separate files – 4,486 of them – took slightly longer, 26m 29s. So we’re back to the having to wait an hour or so to burn a full disc.

At around $800-$900 and no current support for DVD writing, I doubt we will be seeing too many of these in PC’s shortly.

Source: The Register

Comments

17 Mar 2006 ~ 4:28pm RWB Who cares about speed if your looking for something to backup things onto
17 Mar 2006 ~ 4:29pm TheSmJ Do they even sell the recordable media yet?
17 Mar 2006 ~ 5:52pm muddocktor Yeah, and what will the media cost?
17 Mar 2006 ~ 6:40pm Armo hope fully it will lower DL DVD prices
17 Mar 2006 ~ 8:57pm Qeldroma

Winga wrote:

At around $800-$900 and no current support for DVD writing, I doubt we will be seeing too many of these in PC's shortly.

Not in mine, at least. However, i can start getting excited about having less back-up DVDs to burn when the price comes down and the speed goes up enough.