LaCie Blue Ray + DVD+/- R/RW FireWire & USB 2.0 (301115U)

by LaCie

Product Details

• Item Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MEX7CW
• Item model number: 301115U
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #39 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > External Components > Optical Drives > Blu-ray Drives
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 28, 2006

Product Description

Burn up to 4 hours of HD video on a Blu-ray disc without quality loss and then share it with your customers or send your high-quality master for replication. New Blu-ray technology allows you to archive large amounts of data audio asset libraries raw video shoots image files or complete multimedia projects on long lasting BD media - at a low cost per GB. Easily back up as much as 10 DVDs worth of important files at a fast throughput of 9MB/s. Backward compatible with CD/DVD media it also offers a compelling interactive multimedia experience when playing back your BD-ROMs. Bundled with full-featured easy-to-use software including packet writing and backup applications it s the LaCie Blu-ray burning solution for intensive professional use.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost as Advertised, December 27, 2008

By 

D. Twomey "2ME" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie Blue Ray + DVD+/- R/RW FireWire & USB 2.0 (301115U) (Personal Computers)

This is a great product I just recently burned my first blu ray disc and the result was a beautiful HD picture. This would have received five stars if it would have come with the right software package. I use this product on a Mac and it comes with Titanium Toast 8. Toast 8 allows you to burn to a blu ray disc but data only blu ray discs. As a professional videographer looking to make a HD video disc this was not what I intended. After some research and an upgrade to Toast 9, plus an additional plug-in for 9, I was able to burn a HD Video disc on Blu Ray. Once the software was correct it did as advertised.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lacie Blu-Ray burner - WORKS!, April 13, 2008

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Brian Wilson (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LaCie Blue Ray + DVD+/- R/RW FireWire & USB 2.0 (301115U) (Personal Computers)

I just bought this external USB 2.0 Lacie Blu-Ray burner, and just burned my very first 25 GB data disk -> on a TDK BD-R 25 GB Blu-Ray blank. It seems to work! I used Roxio Create 8.2 XE (came with the Lacie Blu-Ray burner). Everything went very smoothly, but it did take A VERY VERY LONG TIME (as in several hours to burn 23 GB of data). The Roxio software reports "Target max burn speed 2.0x, Current burn speed: 0.97x" so basically I think it's burning the MONSTROUS 23 GB at 1x speed.

I am not interested in ever burning a movie, so I did not test that. I'm only doing permanent write-once backups of large amounts of data (like my iTunes MP3 collection).

The Roxio software came with TONS OF BLOATWARE, and as I said I'm only interested in the very most simple burning of data disks, so here are the steps I used to install the minimum:

1) Insert the Roxio install CD, run the "Setup" program.

2) Unselect **EVERYTHING** (yes, **EVERYTHING**) and continue
with the install. It still installs 3 things!

3) In Add/Remove programs, remove the "Drag to Disc" burner
functionality.

RESULT -> You are left with one piece of bloatware "Backup MyPC 7"
that I haven't figured out how to remove yet, and the one piece
of software you want "Roxio Creator 8.2 XE".

The Roxio Creator 8.2 XE is really super straight-forward and easy to use -> just drag directories onto the main window, then click the "Burn Disc" button. If you first insert a blank Blu-Ray disk, then it shows you have 25 GB to fill up (and shows a nice friendly bar showing how much you currently have selected). If instead you insert a DVD-R, it shows you have 4.7 GB to fill up, etc. Before burning it complained that some of my filenames had bad symbols in them ('#' is forbidden in the ISO filesystem it seems), and it listed the exact files for me, so I went in and fixed those up before burning. Overall a good experience.

-- BrianW, Palo Alto, CA