Plug and Play- Awesome!, (What's this?) I never take the time to review the stuff I get. This however, has been great. I literally plugged it in to my MacBook Pro ( I did have Toast Titanium already installed) and started burning Blu-Ray disks. It's relatively fast, and so far all discs have played. I have used it to burn Blu-Ray discs as well as burn and copy SD DVD's. I've used it via fire-wire and USB with little difference in speed.
Fantastic external burner for Mac users, (What's this?)
LaCie Blu Ray burner, easy to use
very sturdy, metal enclosure
definitely worth the purchase. great price. great product. works GREAT with MAC or PC.
Cannot play Blu-ray movies on Mac Platform (as of Aug 2010), (What's this?) Bought the drive to watch my Blu-ray movies on my new 27" iMac. No Blu-ray movie player exists in the Macintosh operating system so you can only use the drive for this purpose if you install Windows and get a Windows OS compatible blu-ray player. I requested it be returned. The supplier consented, paid for the return shipping, and refunded the entire sum of my puchase. Wonderful experiance.
GROSSLY OVERPRICED!, This is a good product that works as advertised. The BIG problem I have with this product is the PRICE! LaCie is selling a $110 Pioneer BDR 206 drive installed in a standard LaCie USB 2.0/Firewire 400 enclosure for $380! That means you are paying $270 JUST for their enclosure! Why do they think this pricing is acceptable?
LaCie makes wonderful external drive enclosures that look good and work very well. So why only one star? Because of the outrageous price markup! LaCie does not make any Blu-ray or DVD drives themselves. In the case of this product all they make is an external USB/Firewire 400 enclosure, then they drop in a Pioneer BDR 206 internal SATA drive, and JACK UP the price!
You can accomplish the same thing by buying the Pioneer BDR drive separately for $110:
Pioneer Internal Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Writer BDR-206 (Black)
Then buy this LaCie DVD burner that uses the SAME USB 2.0/Firewire 400 external enclosure for only $90:
LaCie 301484U 22X d2 DVDRW DL Lightscribe USB2.0 and FireWire US
If you were to then remove the DVD burner from its enclosure (using a phillips screwdriver) and replace it with the Pioneer BDR drive, and you would end up with essentially the SAME product as the one being sold here, but for only $200 out of pocket! You'd even end up with a spare SATA Samsung SH-S223 Lightscribe drive that could be dropped into the internal drive bay of a PC or Mac Pro Desktop, or you could just sell it on eBay! Yes, you'd probably void the warranty from LaCie by opening the enclosure, but you could build TWO of these products for almost the same price LaCie is charging here for ONE.
If you really need the Roxio software, you'd have to buy it separately. (Personally I don't need or want the Roxio software)
LaCie REALLY ought to think about charging a more reasonable amount of money for this product!
If you don't want to void any warranties, another CHEAPER option would be to simply buy the Pioneer drive and drop it into one of these aftermarket firewire enclosures (NOTE: I HAVE NOT PERSONALLY TESTED EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING ENCLOSURES!):
Bytecc ME-535Limited USB/Firewire 800/eSata Enclosure:
Works Great, (What's this?) I am very happy with this drive. It's faster at burning normal DVDs than the internal drive in my iMac.
High Quality Burner, I had been looking for a high quality Blu-Ray burner for a while and found this LaCie drive. I have had it for two weeks and have found it to be rock solid...just what I need. This drive is a bit pricy but I am finding it well worth it.
Author HD video content for playback on all BD players.Store up to 50GB of data on a single disc.Multi-format BD (Blu-ray) and DVD/CD.Record, rewrite, and play back HD video.Safe storage with a low cost-per-gigabyte...
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