Blu-Ray drives will soon be reaching you with Samsung ready with its Blu-Ray recordable drive to be released late next month. Blu-ray recordable drives for desktop PCs are designed to take on DVDs giving users more storage space, up to 25GB on a single-layer.



IT Week has tested Samsung’s BD-Writer, and concluded:

We were able to write and verify files using Nero Express 7 authoring software with beta support for Blu-ray, our test system was unable to read the disks using Windows Explorer.

Samsung claims that this is due to the beta support in Nero. A TDK rewritable BD-RE media was able to write a 12GB file set in 23 minutes, giving the write speed of about 8.7MB/s.



Samsung’s BD-Writer will be shipped with ‘triple-write capability’ recording to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray disks. Pioneer’s BDR-101A drive will be initially compatible with DVD media only. The Blue-ray sans dual-layer writing support, which would double the storage capacity to 50GB, will be of no use with consumer point of view, especially when Samsung’s BD-Writer to cost about £350.



Via: itweek