Sony-BDX-S500U

If the one thing that strikes you immediately to Sony: BDX-S500U external USB Blu-ray DVD drive information, is that it is small. Only 147x137x19mm (wdh). That is the same size as the second of two stacked one on top of the CD, their cases in February. We are not talking about a small part of the hardware in the impressively.

So close is the BDX-S500U that we had to check it was not only burning the DVD, but no, it is a full Blu-ray writer classification 6 BD-R, x and 2 x BD-RE read and write speeds.

The first impressions
Cosmetic perspective, BDX-S500U displays a very intelligent in its glossy black case. The front of the drive and tray eject button appears on the screen, so you can download off of the disc, press, provided you have an external power source that is attached to the back of the drive.

Some external optical drives use a Y-cable to provide double the necessary juice; However, Sony only requires a USB cable on a regular basis, such as the power source of the hard work. The anticipated slowdown, this means that you can use the BDX-S500U-drive on your portable computer when you are away from the area and the network voltage. All of which is one of the reserve of the laptop's USB port, grateful for that Sony has done.

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Performance matters
Blu-ray reading and writing to complement the Sony offers you can expect your laptop drive, CD and DVD of the performance of the sort the good, but not exceptional. DVD + R/+ r writing speed is RW 8 x, DVD-RW 6 x, and CD-R 24 x writing is.

Of course, the nominal numbers are only part of the story. We did a comparison of the Two Asus SBW-06C1S-U external drive, which is the same speed, and price. This showed us that Sony took 27 seconds longer than the 4 GB of data, a significant number of Asus, in sufficient time, the DVD-r disk, but then again, we are talking about ten and a half minutes and eleven minutes difference.

The position of the two seemed to run at the same speed until the end of the process when Sony took completes the DVD. This gives us hope that Sony provide the firmware version that improves the speed of the drive in the future.

Extras
Sony includes a decent package consists of CyberLink Media Suite 8 (PowerDVD, PowerProducer 5, 9, PowerDirector 8, Power2Go 6), the Media Show and PowerBackup, PowerDVD copy, so that each work software tool software.

INFORMATION
BD-R/BD-RE read speed 6 x/2 x
BD-R/BD-RE write speed of 6 x/2 x
DVD + R writing speed r 8 x/8 x
DVD + RW write speed of the/-RW 8 x/6 x
DVD + R DL writing speed r, 4 x 4 x
DVD-RAM 5 x writing speed
DVD-Rom 8 x speed
CD-R/CD-RW/CD-disk speed 24 x/16 x/24 x
Tray or top-loading tray loading
Laptop connection, USB 2.0
Power connection for external power source
DVD playback software, PowerDVD 9
CyberLink Power2Go 6 burning programs
Software CyberLink PowerProducer 5 DVD
Information about the buffer, 4,5 MB
Dimensions (WxHxD) 147 x 137 x 19 mm
300 g

Sony BDX-S500U is a small Blu-ray writer, which reads and writes just about any media, throw it in a very interesting and shows.

Only negative point is the front of the cosmetic, its external power source. But when the power supply looks a bit bulky, it makes sense from a technical point of view as it means the drive requires only a single USB 2.0 connection to your laptop or PC. Many external drives take up two universal serial bus (USB) port.

£ 150 Inc. VAT