Buffalo Brings Out BDXL Disc Burner

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BDXL is, pretty much, the best way to do big storage these days. And if you need a place to put between 100 and 128 gigs of data in one place quickly, and take it with you where ever you go, you’ll want a BDXL burner so you can take advantage of this hefty new physical media format. And the folks out at Buffalo are looking to provide just that with their new BRXL-PC6U2-BK.

The Buffalo BRXL-PC6U2-BK is a shockingly slim BDXL burner that will let you burn those massive new discs (and, in all likelihood, read them as well, though there’s no confirmation as to whether it will or not), and do so in a nice looking package, as you can see above, which is something of a departure from the earlier BDXL drives that have all the aesthetic appeal of certain kinds of masonry.

But there are some fair-sized disadvantages to this unit as well. One, it’s set to run on a USB 2.0 port, which means burning speeds–especially given the sheer size of the discs to which you’ll be burning that information–are going to be pretty slow. In fact, burning at any speed at or above 4x is going to require you to plug in a second USB plug.

Frankly, BDXL probably should be geared toward a USB 3.0 environment to take advantage of the extra speed. And it’s not as though it would leave anybody out in the cold–most USB 3.0 stuff is backward compatible with USB 2.0 anyway, which is pretty much the only USB port anyone has any more. So those with USB 3.0 ports could have taken advantage of the increased speed and those without could still use the device as normal.

You’ll be able to get your hands on the BRXL-PC6U2-BK starting in about a week or so, though you’ll have to pay around $275 for one of these (or 22,100 yen if you’re paying for one of these in Japan). You can do better price-wise, though they won’t look that nice. Oh, and don’t forget to save some cash for the media you’ll need to run this thing–BDXL discs are still pretty pricey in their own right.