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Sony this week unveiled its next-gen half-height internal Blu-ray rewritable drive available in both retail and OEM configurations. The new drive includes Blu-ray 3D playback and offers up to 12X writes to single BD-R media and up to 8X speeds on dual-layer BD-R discs.
Sony says the 12X recording speed works on 6X compatible BD-R media, allowing you to record a full 25GB disc in about 10 minutes. Other specs include:
No word yet on price of availability, though Sony did say if you pony up for the retail model you'll also receive CyberLink's Media Suite 8 software.
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TechLarry
November 08, 2010 at 12:13pm
The useless 3D crap has added to the price. I could care less about 3D. It will never be anything more than half-baked.
Oh, and for those that date themselves by talking about full-height drives, I offer you this:
G=C800:5
If you remember that, you are probably pretty close to being AARP eligible :)
VoodooChicken
November 05, 2010 at 1:58pm
I could be wrong, and it probably doesn't make a difference to most.
rinkuchal
November 05, 2010 at 10:12pm
any drive placed in the 3.5" drive bays are called half-height drives, because old 5.25" floppy disk drives used to take twice the space and when newer slimmer 5.25" floppy drives came out, they were called half-height drives. and that term stuck for any peripheral placed in the 3.5" drive bay...
elo231
November 06, 2010 at 10:11am
I remember HDD used to eat up 2 3.5" (seagate SCSI Barracuda) bays. Almost all current case right now have support rails so those old drives won't fit, unless you do some modding.
Jesterace
November 06, 2010 at 8:40pm
I remember having an old Maxtor hard drive that was 5.25" it was huge and I believe it was less than a gig of storage. I forget what it was as it was a bastard build that ran with a P166mmx CPU.
