eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More.
With the capability to burn as much as 8.5GB of data onto a single disk, LaCies d2 DVD±RW Double Layer Drive will be a popular tool for backing up data and DVD videos.
The d2 DVD±RW Double Layer Drive, which began shipping last month, has a reasonable price of $249, which will make it competitive with other external double-layer DVD burners.
In my tests, I found that the d2 DVD±RW Double Layer Drive and its bundled software, Roxios Easy Media Creator 7, were relatively easy to use.
The bundled Easy Media Creator suite let me burn dual-layer disks easily; the drive also comes with Roxios Toast Lite 6.0.6 disk-burning software for Mac OS users.
However, I noticed in tests that my older disk-burning software, InterVideos DVD Copy, wasnt capable of dual-layer burning. IT departments will likely have to invest in newer revisions of their DVD-burning software if they dont want to use the bundled software.
I used Verbatims DVD+R DL disks as my test media and was able to burn at the maximum dual-layer 2.4X burning speeds. The d2 DVD±RW Double Layer Drive also supports 8X DVD+R and 8X DVD-R burn speeds for single-layer recordings.
LaCies d2 DVD±RW Double Layer Drive has USB 2.0 and FireWire ports to connect to PCs and servers.
More information is available at www.lacie.com.
Check out eWEEK.coms Storage Center at http://storage.eweek.com for the latest news, reviews and analysis on enterprise and business storage hardware and software.
Be sure to add our eWEEK.com developer and Web services news feed to your RSS newsreader or My Yahoo page