OWC Announces Quad Interface 8x Blue-ray Drives

Other World Computing, 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.
 
Available immediately priced starting at $399.99, the Mercury Pro Blu-ray External Drives are designed 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 HD 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.
 
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.  
 
You'll find more information on the OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray external drive solutions right here.