The portable device, measuring only 5.2' (W) X 0.55' (H) X 5.2' (D) and weighing a mere 8.46 ounces, also has the ability to be powered directly via USB (no AC adaptor needed).

The ultra-compact USB 3.0 drive can read and write to all BDXL discs 1 including BD-R triple-layer 100GB media, BD-R quad-layer 128GB media, and BD-RE triple layer 100GB media, as well as conventional Blu-ray discs (single-layer 25GB media and dual-layer 50GB media). For files that are not sensitive, but intended to be shared, you can also pass around copies of files on discs without having to worry about getting them back, whereas for USB storage you’re out of pocket more than a few pennies if you lose a high capacity USB drive.The BDR-XD05 is one of the world's smallest and lightest BD/DVD/CD portable burners supporting BDXL. If you have sensitive documents that you want to keep hard copies of, then destroy when they have served their use, a disc copy is a great tool for doing that. There’s also the security offered by using a more disposable format. Whether you’re interested in backup up your movie collection, sharing home videos with family members, or making mix CDs to take in the car, an external disc drive can be a real handy tool for managing audio and video files on their native format. In many cases, a spinning disc is a legacy format, not something that is widely used any more, as cloud storage or flash storage offer less cumbersome methods for transferring data around, but the humble disc drive is not entirely obsolete yet.įor interfacing with disc and players for TVs, it can be handy to read and write files to and from different formats of discs. There’s also small form factor desktop machines that don’t offer any kind of disc drive functionality.

It’s certainly nice to have small, light and thin laptops for a commute or other use on the go, but this can leave you hanging if you ever do need to burn something onto a disc.

Many slimline laptops these days eschew any kind of disc drive entirely.

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