Best/latest BluRay burner for MAC PRO?

[Chris Borjis]

[Kent Beeson] “it takes 4 hours to burn a data DVD to a Verbatim 25GB BD-R disc”

what??

are you burning the content of a full data dvd to a bd-r and it takes 4 hours?

something else is wrong.

[Kent Beeson]

Yes I know something is very wrong – been on the phone for long time to MCE Tech, Roxio Toast – no joy – MCE is sending me another burner but I fear this MCE burner can’t take Verbatim BD-r’s or something. I couldn’t burn via Finder to my MCE bluray burner so bought Toast and though it burns it takes hours per – As we speak it’s been 4 hours and counting and it says it’s only at 78% complete. Any thoughts?

Thanks

K
http://www.effectivevideo.net

[Will Salley]

Kent, How much data are you burning?

Let us know what other products you find.

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[Kent Beeson]

Been burning 20-22GB worth of files/folders as a data BD-R but these MCE drives can’t correctly deal with Verbatim 25GB BD-R’s. anywhere from 3-5 hours for one burn using Toast 10.0.6

Thanks

K
http://www.effectivevideo.net

[Jaap Van hoewijk]

I use a LaCie D2 BR burner. 8x speed. Use Sony BD-R 25 GIG discs. No problems and burns a BR within 12 minutes (i.e. DATA BR)

[John Fishback]

Checkout the Pioneer BK-205

John

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[Kent Beeson]

Thanks for replies – whatever drive I get it must work with earl 2008 MAC PRO with an EIDE/ATAPI interface…so I don’t think I can use that Pioneer one, but am still looking.

Thanks

K
http://www.effectivevideo.net

[Walter Biscardi]

You might want to try different media. We use the TDK BD-R’s in our three year old FastMac BluRay burner and don’t have any issues with these.

Verbatim has not been very good media for us in the past so I avoid their products.

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[Warren Eig]

I installed the Pioneer in a 2008 2.8 Octo in about ten minutes. 3 screws removes the fan and you attach a SATA cable to one of the spare motherboard ports, snake it up to the DVD bays and you are in business. Grab a molex to SATA power cable that comes with most bare hard drives and you are all set. It literally takes ten minutes and you have the added advantage of a SATA drive speed.

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[Kent Beeson]

Interesting, thank you. So the Pioneer BDR-205 is a good one then?

Thanks

K
http://www.effectivevideo.net