Sony announced the BWU-300S - Internal Blu-ray drive for PCs

On Tuesday, the company Sony Electronics announced the release of an internal Blu-ray optical drive for desktop computers under the name of the BWU-300S. Novelty is the third generation of reading and writing BD- drive. BWU-300S supports DVD-RAM, and is able to work with single-layer and dual layer BD-R or BD-RE at speeds up to 8x.

BWU-300S take 15 minutes to write single-layer disc with a capacity of up to 25 gigabytes, and about 30 minutes to burn dual-layer 50 -GB counterpart. In addition, the drive is capable of working with DVD and CD media. Recording to DVD is produced at a rate of 16x on CD - 48x.

Novelty has a standard size 5. 25- inches, connects via SATA interface and is compatible with operating systems Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Sales BWU-300S will start in October this year. The exact price is still unknown, but it will be below $ 400.

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