OWC Lowers Blu-ray Drive Prices

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Other World Computing announced on Thursday that it has reduced the price of its Mercury Blu-ray external and internal drives. These drives read and write Blu-ray, DVD, DVD-RAM, CD and virtually every optical media, according to OWC.

The drives feature high-capacity storage, up to 50 GB per disc, for write-once or rewriteable media at a burn speed of 24X, full high-quality HD picture, and Surround Sound capabilities. Dual layer burning of DVDs at 8.5 GB is also supported.


OWC Blu-ray External Drive

For the external drive, the interfaces include USB 2 and FireWire 400. For the internal drive, the interface is IDE/ATAPI. All required cables, two 25 GB blank Blu-ray discs and a full copy of Toast 8 are included. (Currently, Mac OS X cannot write to Blu-ray discs, and Toast is required.)

The OWC Mercury Blu-ray external drive is now priced at US$599.99 and the internal at US$499.99.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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