Sony BWU-500S

Sony BWU-500S

The Sony BWU-500S is a Blu-ray writer that supports write speeds of up to 8x for BD media, 16x for DVD and 48x for CD. It also supports an access time of BD: SL-250ms / DL-380ms, DVD: SL-150ms / DL-160ms / RAM-200ms and CD: 150ms. The unit has a tray load mechanism for horizontal and vertical use, S-ATA interface with a burst transfer rate or 1.5 Gbits/sec, 8 Mbytes cache, and is compatible with MultiRead, MS Windows® XP and Windows Vista® and Win 7. the unit comes with an S-ATA data cable, S-ATA power adapter, User Manual and Quick Start Guide. It also comes with Cyberlink® PowerProducer 5 (BD/DVD Authoring Software), Cyberlink PowerDirector 8 (Editing Software), Cyberlink Power2Go 6 (Data writing), Cyberlink PowerBackup 2.5 (Backup software) and Cyberlink PowerDVD 9 Player software supporting Blu-ray 3D.

Features

The Sony BWU-500S is a Blu-ray writer that can burn both single-layer and dual-layer Blu-ray disks and is backwards compatible with a variety of other optical disk formats such as DVDs and CDs. The Sony BWU-500S supports 2x BD-RE write speeds, 12x single-layer BD-R write speeds and 8x dual-layer BD media write speeds. It can write CD-RW disks at 24x and CD-R at 48x, while DVD-RW media reaches speeds of 6x, DVD+RW and DVD-R/+R DL at 8x and 12x, respectively; and DVD-R/+R and DVD-RAM at 16x and 12x, respectively. Backed up by the two-year warranty, the device will start selling in October.