This burner is nice, fairly small, and delivers on its promises.
Written: Aug 13 '07
Product Rating:
Ease of Use:
Pros: Easy to set up & use, attractive, and fast
Cons: No blank media with purchase of drive. Pretty expensive.
The Bottom Line: This drive is easy to set up, use, and transport. It's a valuable addition to any setup for video or data burning - if you can justify the price.
We purchased the LaCie D2 Blu-Ray burner for projects at work. My co-workers got it for burning HD movies (we are a video editing studio), but I wanted it for its data storage capabilities. Fir this review, I'll address the latter and I may update the review if we use it to burn and HD video in the future.
The burner arrived in a stylish aluminum enclosure. It stacks well with other devices (especially if they are also made by LaCie), and it stays relatively cool even under heavy use. The drive shipped with one firewire 400 cable, one USB cable, and a power cable. It also included a CD copy of Roxio Toast 7, but we already own Toast 8. There was no blank media in the box (awwww!)
We purchased a few Sony "Accu-Core" BD-R DL discs for data back-up to use with this drive. Aside from their low-quality disc cases, the media seems to work well. I've ripped 2 discs so far, and both worked flawlessly. These discs will work for data recording as well as HD video recording.
The drive plugged into my Macintosh G5 with no problems. Roxio Toast 8 detected it without any fuss at all. I dragged some files onto my disc, and it recorded with no problems. It takes about 90 minutes to record 50GB onto a blu-ray disc at 2x speed.
Also, I burned one disc with data that was almost exclusively living on the firewire hard drive that is daisy-chained on my Mac with the Blu-Ray. There was no data loss.
Overall, I'd recommend the drive. It was a bit expensive ($850), but worth the cost when I consider how long it would have taken to burn all this data to 4.5GB DVDRs.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 850 Operating System: Macintosh
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