Comments on: OWC ups the speed of its external Blu-ray recorder

Other World Computing offers a quad-interface Blu-ray recorder that burns Blu-ray Discs at 8x, DVDs at 16x, and CDs at 40x.

[yashgta]

whoa! $480 for an external drive when one could buy a cheaper desktop blu-ray drive and a enclosure and end up paying less.

[XPSTEADY]

@480 USD the 1TB Western Digital Element 1TB 3.5" Black External Hard Drive is 110 bucks.
you could get 4 of these and have way more storage. at this price 480USD Blue-ray is dead.
also to note a BR-disc is 5 dollars each and you have to buy ten to get this price for 25GB of storage.
BR is a Sony product and like the beta good idea but overpriced for the time.

[ewelch]

Sour grapes HD-DVD user? Blu-ray is far from beta. It works just fine, not Sony-only, and your reasoning is complete nonsense. Hard drives and optical discs are complementary, not competitors.