USING THE DRIVE
Fitting the drive only took a few moments and Windows identified it straight away.
Popping in the software disk, I decided to install the complete Blu-ray Disk Suite to see just what it came with.
The installation was straight forward and didn’t take too long.
After the installation completed I was immediately informed that there was a patch available for the software.
I was then given the option to buy an upgrade to the latest version (this is version 10, the version on the disk is only version 8) or just to download the critical update.
I went for the critical update only and then after a reboot I was ready to go.
Launching the software gave me a whole host of options, from writing discs, to playback of movies.
I wrote some discs at different speeds and they all worked great – I was a bit apprehensive at first given the cost of blank Blu-ray discs! But then I was reminded of my first single speed DVD writer and the media that cost over £15 a blank! Ah, good times!
Playing back different dvds and blu-rays worked flawlessly.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I really like the drive, it works perfectly and it doesn’t take long to set up.
Price wise, in the UK it retails for around £200 and in the US for about $240, so again it’s more expensive here in the UK than in the US.
If you want to just play back blu-rays you can certainly find a cheaper drive, but if you want to write blu-rays, at high speed (well, high speed for blu-ray), then this is certainly the drive you should consider.
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