Plextor launches its first Blu-ray drive: the PX-B900A

Exciting news today as Plextor has announced their first Blu-ray drive, the PX-B900A. This drive will become available in September/October of 2006 and is also able to to write DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RAM, CD-R and CD-RW and comes standard with 8 MB of buffer space, something many people also ask for in DVD-recorders.

The PX-B900A not only uses the latest Blu-ray technology, but is also a highly versatile dual-layer DVD drive that combines multiple formats '“ DVD+/-R/RW and RAM - into one.

It can accept
both 12cm and 8cm discs (in the horizontal position) and has a large 8MB buffer to ensure there is no data interruption. Write speeds: 2x BD-R/BD-RE, 8x DVD+R/-R/+RW, 6x DVD-RW, 4x DVD+R/-R DL, 5x DVD-RAM, 24x CD-R and 16x CD-RW.

The internal (ATAPI) re-writer drive is capable of writing and re-writing Blu-ray discs at 2x (BD-R and BD-RE) up to a maximum capacity of 25GB for single layer and 50GB for dual-layer.

Source: CDFreaks

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