A new line of “Quad Interface” Blu-ray drive solution was introduced by Other World Computing or OWC. This prominent PC technology and Mac Company released this version named OWC Mercury Pro with features like FireWire 400, FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 2.0, etc.
Apart from these, the OWC Mercury Pro drive also comes with a disc write speed of 4x, transfers data at the rate of 150 MB per sec and a speed of 1 gigabyte per minute of data burning. Other interesting features include compatibility with Macintosh and Windows, flexibility in the Plug and Play connection, etc.
Retrieving and archiving of high definition music, photos, video and data files with the help of optical media is now possible with the Blu-ray external drive solutions from Mercury Pro. Almost any optical media can be written or read with the Mercury Pro Blu-ray including DVD-RAM, DVD/+/-R/RW, BD/BD-R, CD-R/RW, etc.
Blu-ray features such as high storage capacity, surround sound, HD picture of high quality, etc are some of the other aspects of this device. With a write performance twice as much as the previous version, the Mercury Pro Blu-ray drive is all set to capture the market.
The SW-5583 model is priced at $499.99 and comes with two BD-R discs of 25 GB and the whole set of cables for connections.
Model No. SW 5583 T comes with all above features plus Roxio Toast 9 Titanium or Mac OS X retail version and a starter media. This Blu-ray writer is priced at $579.99
