LaCie debuts bus-powered Slim Blu-ray drive

By Geoff Duncan Published December 10, 2010

Storage and peripheral maker LaCie has introduced its new LaCie Slim Blu-ray, a sleek external Blu-ray drive that can read and write Blu-ray media, enabling users to stash as much as 50 GB on an optical disk as well as play back high-definition movies and content. And, even better, the Slim Blu-ray operates off USB bus power, so it doesn’t require users carry around a separate AC adapter—although it does come with a USB 2.0 Y-cable in case your preferred USB 2.0 port doesn’t offer enough juice.

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The Slim Blu-ray offers 6× burning speeds for BD-R, BD-R LtH, and BD-ROM (single layer) discs and 4× burning speeds for BD-ROM (dual layer), and BD-RE discs. Users can also burn DVD±RW media at 8× and old-school CD media at 24×. The drive ships with Windows software for burning discs as well as photo and video editing: PowerDVD 9 comes in the box with 3D Blu-ray support, and LaCie also packs in Power2Go 6, PowerDirector 6, PowerStarter 7, PhotoNow, PowerProducer, InstantBurn, PowerBackup, and MediaShow.

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The drive can be used with Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7, and carries a suggested retail price of $264.99.

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