First Blu-ray Disc Writer For PC Gets Reviewed

WingaWinga MrSouth Africa Icrontian
edited March 2006 in Science & 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
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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

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited March 2006
    Who cares about speed if your looking for something to backup things onto ;)
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited March 2006
    Do they even sell the recordable media yet?
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited March 2006
    Yeah, and what will the media cost?
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited March 2006
    hope fully it will lower DL DVD prices
  • QeldromaQeldroma Arid ZoneAh Member
    edited March 2006
    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.
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