BWU-300S

Internal 8x Blu-ray Disc™ Rewritable Drive

The versatile BWU-300S Blu-ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable drive from Sony Corporation gives you the best of all worlds.
It can record up to four hours of 1080 Full HD video or up to 50GB of data on BD-R discs at up to 8x speed - or on BD-RE disc at up to 2X speed. The drive can also record 8.5GB/4.7GB DVDs and common rewritable CDs to meet even more of your needs. Record a variety of video, ranging from HDV/AVCHD camcorders to Blu-ray Discs and keep the video in its native HD resolution, or down-convert to standard definition and record a DVD.
The easy-to-install SATA interface drive works with Windows® Vista and XP.

>> Record up to 50GB of Data or 4 Hours HD Video

>> Multi-Format Drive - Records BD, DVD, CD Discs

>> Add Blu-ray Recording to Existing PC

Product Specification

Read Speed (max.):	BD: 8x, DVD: 16x, CD: 48x
Write Speed (max.):	BD-R: 8x, BD-RE: 2x DVD-R: 16x, DVD-R DL: 8x, DVD-RW: 6x, DVD-RAM: 5x DVD+R: 16x, DVD+R9: 8x, DVD+RW: 8x CD-R: 48x, CD-RW: 32x
Access Time:	BD: 210 ms, DVD: 170 ms, CD: 150 ms
Mechanism:	motorized tray load mechanism for horizontal and vertical use
Interface:	S-ATA
Burst transfer rate:	1.5 Gbps
Cache Memory:	8 MByte
Media supported:	BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+R9, DVD+RW, CD-R and CD-RW, 120mm and 80mm discs
Modes supported:	BD-ROM, BD-AV, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-Video, CD-DA, CD-ROM (XA), CD Extra, Video CD, Photo CD, CD Text
Weight:	0.9 kg
Dimensions:	148 mm x 42 mm x 195 mm (drive only)
Accessories supplied:	Cyberlink® PowerProducer™ BD/DVD Authoring Software Cyberlink PowerDirector™ Editing Software Cyberlink Power2Go Data Editing Software Cyberlink InstantBurn™ Packet Writing Software Cyberlink PowerBackup Backup software Cyberlink PowerDVD™ Player software S-ATA data cable S-ATA power adapter User Manual & Quick Start Guide

System requriements: Pentium® 4 3.4Ghz or faster (or equivalent) CPU minimum. Core2Duo 2.4Ghz or faster (or equivalent) CPU is recommended for playback of AVCHD video, 512MB RAM or more (1GB RAM or more to playback AVCHD video), 60GB of hard disk space, graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 series or higher or ATI RADEON X1600 series or higer, display with HDCP support (either HDMI connector or DVD-I with HDCP). Windows® Vista (SP1) Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, or Business, or Windows XP (SP3) Home/Professional operating systems. Internet connection (Broadband highly recommended)

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