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EZQuest Blu-ray Super Drive 12X Rewriter Upgrade Kit For Mac Pro/Power Mac is the new generation of Super drive upgrade kit that is pre configured and easy to install for Mac Pro and Power Mac. You can drag and drop your files, documents, spreadsheets, photos, songs, and movies to your Blu-ray Disc icon and burn them instantly up to 50GB on recordable or rewritable Blu-ray Discs directly from your Mac desktop in Mac OS 10.5.2 or later. Apple’s “Disk Utility” also will let you to format the rewritable Blu-ray Disc so you can write to it again.
The EZQuest Blu-ray Super drive can store nine hours of HD movies, 23 hours of standard definition content or 72 CDs on a single disc! In addition to its massive storage capacity. The EZQuest Blu-ray Super drive is also compatible with all DVD and CD recordable media including DVD+_R/RW + Dual/Double Layer, DVD-RAM, and CD-R and CD-RW. In addition, the EZQuest Blu-ray Super drive will even read HD DVD-ROM discs as well as burn LightScribe (In Boot Camp) labels onto compatible DVD or CD media. The drive has a 4MB buffer for writing Blu-ray Disc and DVD media and has built-in Buffer Under-run protection.
Play Back Blu-ray
Blu-Ray/HD-DVD playback is not supported in any Mac OS yet. You won't be able to play commercial discs unless you are using it with Boot Camp. Boot Camp is software included with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that lets you run compatible versions of Microsoft Windows on an Intel-based Mac.
Authoring Blu-ray
The fun part about having the EZQuest Blu-ray Super drive plus version inside your Mac Pro or Power Mac is to be able author professional-quality HD content into Blu-ray discs. EZQuest bundles the Blu-ray Super drive 12X internal with Toast Titanium Pro.
The optional Toast Titanium Pro with HD/BD Plug-in software also allows you to create Blu-ray movies and even has basic menu customization features. Blu-ray movies created using either software are playable on standard Blu-ray top boxes or PlayStation 3 game consoles. Toast titanium Pro incorporates a special feature called Toast Dynamic Writing when use with a Blu-ray rewritable disc (BD-RE). Toast Dynamic Writing lets you use your Blu-ray Disc recorder like a giant hard disk drive-drag and drop directly onto the disc icon to add or remove files.
Toast Titanium Pro also includes comprehensive backup software, which allows for manual, as well as scheduled backups to your EZQuest Blu-ray 12X internal Super drive.
System requirements
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CPU:
OS: OS X
RAM: 1GB or more
HDD: 30GB or more of available space, 60GB for Blu-ray DiscTM Authoring |
Average access time
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CD-ROM 150 msec (Typical)
DVD-ROM 160 msec (Typical)
HD DVD-ROM 210 msec (Typical)
BD-ROM 180 msec (Typical |
Sustained Data transfer rate
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BD-ROM: 215.79 Mbits/s (8x max.)
HD DVD-ROM: 109.65 Mbits/s (3x max.)
DVD-ROM: 22.16 Mbytes/s (40x max.)
CD-ROM: 6,000 Kbytes/s (40x max. |
| Host Interface |
SATA |
| Disc Diameter |
12cm/8cm1 |
| Drive bay |
5.25-inch half-height bay required |
Write speed
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BD-R 12x Max
BD-R (DL) 12x Max
BD-RE 2x Max
BD-RE (DL) 2x Max
DVD+R 16x Max
DVD+R (DL) 8x Max
DVD+RW 8x Max
DVD-R 16x Max
DVD-R (DL) 8x Max
DVD-RW 8x Max
CD-R 40x Max
CD-RW 24x Max |
Read speed
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BD-R (DL) 8x Max
BD-RE 8x Max
BD-RE (DL) 6x Max
BD-ROM 8x Max
BD-ROM (DL) 8x Max
DVD+R 16x Max
DVD+R (DL) 12x Max
DVD+RW 12x Max
DVD-R 16x Max
DVD-R (DL) 12x Max
DVD-RW 12x Max
DVD-ROM 40x Max
CD-ROM 40x Max
CD-R 40x Max
CD-RW 24x Max
BD-R 8x Max
HD DVD-ROM 3x Max
HD DVD-ROM(DL) 3x Max |
Recommended media manufacturer
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DVD-R: Maxell, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Taiyo Yuden.
DVD-RW: JVC, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media.
DVD+R: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.
DVD+RW: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.
DVD±R DL: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.
DVD-RAM: Maxell.
CD-R: LG, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden or TDK.
CD-RW: LG, Ricoh, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim. |
Supported Discs
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BD-ROM (SL/DL)
BD-RE (SL/DL)3
BD-R (SL/DL)
HD-DVD-ROM (SL/DL/TWIN)
DVD-ROM (SL/DL)
DVD-R (SL/DL)
DVD-RW
DVD+R (SL/DL)
DVD+RW
CD-ROM
CD-ROM XA-Ready
CD-I
Photo-CD (Single & Multi-Session)
Video-CD
CD-Audio Disc
Mixed Mode CD-ROM (Data and Audio)
CD-Extra
CD-Text
CD-R
CD-RW
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| Dimensions |
(W x H x D) 5.75" x 1.63" x 7.27" |
| Weight |
1.92 lbs. |
| Warranty |
1 Year Limited Parts/Labor
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