Asus Blu Ray Drive

[Merlin]

I am a little disappointed in the latest release from Asus
The Blu Ray optical drive is coming out with only a 4 mb cache.
You would have thought it would be at the least a 32 mb cache.
Since the optical drive war is over we may see more drives coming to market.
You would think it could even write Blu Ray disks, but it doesn't.
Just reads them.

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

 

[Rory Buszka]

Though this drive doesn't write BDs, it is a multi-format CD/DVD writer, which may make it just the ticket for a whole host of users looking to add BD playback capability to a home theater PC, even if they have no need to master their own BDs.

With a HTPC, most of the convenience factor comes from having recorded and saved media on hard drives, which are still way faster than optical drives any day of the week. And while there's the archival thing to think about, most people will likely use RAID or external backup drives to keep their media safe, instead of periodically dumping it to a BD.

I'd expect this drive to be significantly less expensive at retail than a drive that's capable of writing BDs.

 

[Rob Williams]

Like Rory said, the cache doesn't matter for a ROM drive. As long as it plays BD content, I don't think it matters. If it were a writer, it'd be an entirely different story.

 

[Merlin]

Though this drive doesn't write BDs, it is a multi-format CD/DVD writer, which may make it just the ticket for a whole host of users looking to add BD playback capability to a home theater PC, even if they have no need to master their own BDs.

With a HTPC, most of the convenience factor comes from having recorded and saved media on hard drives, which are still way faster than optical drives any day of the week. And while there's the archival thing to think about, most people will likely use RAID or external backup drives to keep their media safe, instead of periodically dumping it to a BD.

I'd expect this drive to be significantly less expensive at retail than a drive that's capable of writing BDs.

Just about 100.00 USD more and you can get one that writes BR
So it's kind of close anyway....

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

 

[Kougar]

Eh, I already posted here: http://forums.techgage.com/showthread.php?t=3647