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OWC Memory Pro Blu-ray Quad Interface drives announced

New external Blu-ray burners from Other World Computing start at $499 and include eSATA, Firewire 400 & 800, and USB 2.0 connections.

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Computing | by C.K. Sample III | Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:33PM | 0 comments

If you have $500 to spare and have been looking for an external Blu-ray drive to watch all your Blu-ray movies on multiple computers and burn 25GBs worth of data storage to BD-R disks to share between multiple computers, Other World Computing's newly announced Memory Pro Blu-ray Quad Interface drives may be a good choice for you. The drives are notable for supporting four different connection options: eSATA, USB 2.0, and both Firewire 400 and 800. The OWC Mercury Pro SW-5583 costs $499.99 as the entry level unit, whereas the $579.99 OWC Mercury Pro SW-5583T comes bundled with a full retail version of Roxio Toast 9 Titanium for Mac OS X.

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