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The First Blu-ray Burner, Pioneer's BDR-101A

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-getting-started dept.

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has a review of Pioneer's BDR-101A-- the first Blu-ray burner available. The drive can do anything with CDs, is kind of slow with DVDs, and doesn't support double-density Blu-ray media, but hey, it's a start, and can burn 25GB in 42 minutes. Check out its burn speed benchmark performance at the link above."

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  1. Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, but, can it run linux?

    1. Re:Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes, but, can it run linux?

      The kernel guys are pretty quick; last I heard, Linux now almost supports 5 1/2 inch floppies.

  2. Coming of the anti disk by mrraven · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone else notice this? "The BDR-101A is a 2x Blu-ray recorder, meaning it can theoretically burn a BD-RE disc at 72 megabits per second (9MB per second), which is 6.66 times the data rate of the DVD standard." That was a joke son.

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