Never mind that you’d have no USB 3.0 port to plug it in (it’s backward compatible to USB 2.0), never mind that no blank Blu-Ray disc can be had at 12X speed… never mind all that. Optical storage company BUFFALO still pushes out this theoretical speed demon, the BR-X1216U3. Read more from Engadget.com:
Sure, your computer doesn’t have a USB 3.0 plug, and there’s no such thing as a 12x Blu-ray disc for mass consumption just yet, but we shouldn’t let those pesky details get in the way of progress. Buffalo just announced the BR-X1216U3, which is the “world’s first” (er, not exactly, but anyways…) 12x Blu-ray burner, and which incidentally pulls off its wondrous feats through the power of USB 3.0. Of course, it’s backward compatible with USB 2.0, for burn speeds up to 7x, but with 12x on the table that’s just slumming it.
Read the full report here at Engadget.com.
Buffalo's 12X USB 3.0 Blu-Ray speed demon
The state of Blu-Ray data backup and data archiving has not even began to go beyond 8X and the USB 2.0 standard, but Buffalo feels the need to push beyond the current limits. Good on you guys. THEORETICALLY, you would be getting all of USB3.0’s 4.8 Gbit/s transfer speed. Theoretically, you would be getting twice the current standard burn speed of 6X. This is all, we say again, in your dreams, or if you are lucky enough to find the hardware and optical media support for this.
As for us, we keep our feet on the ground, and stay with our DIGISTOR external Blu-Ray burner, giving us 2-4x burn speeds and Blue-ray playback capability. Until the technology — USB 3.0 and 12X capable Blu-Ray media — arrives for the masses, that is.