OWC Mercury Pro Blu-Ray Burner [SuperDrive 'Quad Interface' External Drive]

OWC have just release their new Mercury Pro Blu-Ray Burner for PC and Mac systems which OWC bill as being a ‘SuperDrive “Quad Interface” External Drive’ and which is capable of burning Blu-ray discs at twice the speeds of previous OWC models – 8x (equivalent to two gigabytes per minute), DVDs at up to 16x and CDs at up to 32x.

The new OWC Mercury Pro Blu-Ray Burners are proudly touted by OWC as being ‘the only Blu-ray burners on the market that provide the flexibility of a “Quad Interface” of FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, & eSATA interfaces for Plug & Play compatibility with both Windows and Macintosh systems’ and are aimed specifically at users with large amounts of High-Definition or other video, photos, music, and data files that they want to author, archive, or retrieve using a single disk.

The new OWC Mercury Pro Blu-Ray Burner has just been made available for just short of $400 (Model BDR-203X) or for just shy of $480 when bundled with full retail version of Roxio Toast 10 Titanium (Model BDR-203XT) with both versions also being supplied with two 25GB BD-R discs as well as all the necessary cabling.

OWC Press Release:

Other World Computing (OWC) http://www.macsales.com, a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today its newest OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray/SuperDrive ‘Quad Interface’ External Drive solutions featuring super-fast 8X Blu-ray write speeds of up to 2GB per minute. The Mercury Pro Blu-ray ‘Quad Interface’ External Drives are the only Blu-ray burners on the market that provide the flexibility of a ‘Quad Interface’ of FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, & eSATA interfaces for Plug & Play compatibility with both Windows and Macintosh systems.

Burn 50,000 JPEG Images, 17,500 MP3 Songs, or 25 DVD Movies on a Single Disc!

Available immediately priced starting at $399.99, the Mercury Pro Blu-ray External Drives are ideal for consumers with large amounts of High-Definition or other video, photos, music, and data files that they want to author, archive, or retrieve using a single disk. With twice the Blu-ray burn speed over earlier Mercury Pro models, the new Mercury Pro Blu-ray External Drives are capable of burning 50GB of data equal to 50,000 JPEG images, 17,500 MP3 songs, 25 DVD quality movies, or just under four hours of High Definition video onto a single disc as quickly as 30 minutes. Additionally, Mercury Pro Blu-ray drives read and/or write virtually all optical media, including DVD-RAM, DVD Dual-Layer R/RW, DVD R/RW, and CD-R/RW, as well as Blu-ray.

Pricing for OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray ‘Quad Interface’ External Drive solutions:

OWC Mercury Pro ‘Quad Interface’ External Drive (Model BDR-203X): $399.99. Writes and reads Blu-ray up to 8X, 16X DVD, and 32X CD Burn Speeds. Includes all connection cables and two 25GB BD-R discs.

OWC Mercury Pro ‘Quad Interface’ External Drive (Model BDR-203XT) with Roxio software: $479.99. Writes and reads Blu-ray up to 8X, 16X DVD, and 32X CD Burn Speeds. Includes all connection cables, two 25GB BD-R discs, and full retail version of Roxio Toast 10 Titanium.

“With Blu-ray write speeds twice as fast as the previous OWC models, as well as the ability to read/write DVDs and CDs, these new OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray External Drive solutions give anyone with digital entertainment and general data files the ability to dramatically reduce the time and amount of media required to create general use and archive discs,” said Larry O’Connor, CEO, OWC.

The OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray ‘Quad Interface’ External Drive solutions have been fully tested for compatibility with most Apple and Windows built-in and third party DVD/CD tools and players, including Apple iTunes, Apple Disc Burner, Apple iDVD 5, Apple DVD Studio Pro, EMC Retrospect Express, NTI DragonBurn, Roxio Toast, Roxio Easy Media Creator, and Nero Burning.