External Blu-ray drive for ultra-portable laptops

Asus Blu-ray drives have a data reading speed of 4.8X with BD-ROM discs and write speeds of 8X with DVDs .

Blu-ray player left by Asus. Photo: Notebookcheck .

The "inherent" disadvantage of netbooks or many new ultraportables is that they are not equipped with an optical drive but still have the ability to play the HD video format of Blu-ray discs. However, users of these machines will have to do when they want to burn other video or data content to DVD or Blu-ray disc without relying on a popular desktop or laptop. It seems that owning a machine without optical drive is also troublesome. Asus has come up with a solution: External optical drive Asus SBC-04D1S-U.

This Blu-ray drive from Asus has a vertical support, making it easy to place and use the drive. The drive has a data reading speed of 4.8X (about 6.8 MB / sec) with BD-ROM / R / RE discs and 8X DVD + R / 24X CD-R write speeds. Turbo Engine mechanism supports high speed connection between Blu-ray drive and computer via USB cable. In addition, this Blu-ray drive also supports good viewing of movies or videos with the ability to output high-resolution images to an external HD screen. With built-in BluTuner software, users can adjust the proper brightness of the output image when watching Blu-ray, DVD or VCD. In addition, Asus has also been equipped with SBC-04D1S-U security features by the Disc Encryption program, which can encrypt all or part of the data when writing the disk by setting a password protection (password). ).

The maximum data retrieval speed of Asus SBC-04D1S-U on DVD-R / DVD + RW is 8X, 6X with DVD-RW, 16X discs for CD-RW and 24X discs on CD-R. SBC-04D1S-U has a weight of 0.41 kg, compact dimensions with dimensions corresponding to 157 x 142 x 21 mm.

According to Notebookcheck , the expected selling price of this handy external Asus Blu-ray drive is between $ 170 and $ 200.