OWC's Mercury Pro Blu-ray drives
October 24th 2008
Other World Computing (OWC) has announced today its new line of Mercury Pro Blu-ray Quad Interface external drives. The first Blu-ray external drives on the market offering a "Quad Interface" of FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA, the Mercury Pro drives feature 4X Blu-ray disc write speed for burning up to 1 gigabyte of data per minute; a data transfer rate up to 150MB per second; Plug and Play connection flexibility; and the convenience of compatibility with both Windows and Macintosh systems.
Pricing for OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray Write and Read external drive solutions:
• Mercury Pro SW-5583: $499.99.
-- Writes and reads Blu-ray, DVD, DVD-RAM, CD-R/RW discs. Includes all connection cables and two 25GB BD-R discs.
• Mercury Pro SW-5583T: $579.99.
-- Writes and reads Blu-ray, DVD, DVD-RAM, CD-R/RW discs. Includes all connection cables, starter media, and full retail version of Roxio Toast 9 Titanium
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 iTunes, Apple Disc Burner, iDVD 5, DVD Studio Pro, EMC Retrospect Express, NTI DragonBurn, Roxio Toast, Roxio Easy Media Creator, and Nero Burning.
In related news, NewerTech has cut prices on its quad interface miniStack v3 external storage + FireWire / USB hub product line, which now starts at $69.99 for a bare bone unit.
