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Asus External Blu-Ray Burner SBW-06D2X-U $69 Save $20 MSY Limited Stock in store only!

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Asus External Blu-Ray Burner SBW-06D2X-U $69 Save $20 MSY Limited Stock in store only!
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Smerch on 17/02/2014 - 22:33 msy.com.au (1013 clicks)
Last edited 18/02/2014 - 19:23

Good Evening Guys!
Just received this in my mail. Nice price and external.

Promotion:
http://www.msy.com.au/images/ADbanner/eletter/17022014/onlin…

Prices:
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&p…
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=ASUS%20SBW-…
http://www.shopbot.com.au/pp-asus-sbw-06d2x-u-price-400952.h…

Specs:
http://www.asus.com/Optical_Drives/SBC06D2XU_PRO/

Reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-International-External-Blu-Ra…

I guess discontinued stock and very limited.

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  • maf101 on 17/02/2014 - 22:35
    +8

    It's an External Blu-ray Writer. I had no idea what SBW-06D2X-U was.

    • [Deactivated] on 17/02/2014 - 22:40
      +1

      Yes please put in tile what it is.

      • Smerch on 17/02/2014 - 22:42

        Thank you
        Done

  • Black Hole on 17/02/2014 - 23:14
    +5

    I have this drive for a 2 weeks now. It is a solid drive. The issues I have with it are 2:

    1. it uses 2 usb ports - one for power and the other for data.
    2. it is usb2 and therefore the speed is limited especially for ripping.
    • Nousernamehere on 17/02/2014 - 23:24
      +6

      It's a 6x blu-ray.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable#Speed

      USB2 has over 2x more bandwidth than the maximum read speed transfer (216 Mbit/s or 27 MB/s)

    • Gnostikos on 17/02/2014 - 23:37
      +12
      1. it uses 2 usb ports - one for power and the other for data.

      Much prefer that over a chunky power brick.

      1. it is usb2 and therefore the speed is limited especially for ripping.

      Ripping what? BD-ROMs, DVDs or CDs? I have an ancient Samsung SH-B083L that can rip an entire Blu-ray film in 30 minutes.

      I really don't see the 6x speed drive as an issue, most people rarely rip from optical media nowadays, let alone use optical media. Half an hour to write a BD-R DL is perfectly reasonable to me.

      And for archival purposes, unless you have VERY good media, it's highly inadvisable to burn things at anything higher than 8x speed. A 50 pack of good 6x BD-Rs (Verbatim Mitsubishi Kagaku/Philips Quantum Optical) will set you back $30-40 dollars. Good luck finding any reliable 16x BD-Rs.

      I archive to BD-Rs at work on a regular basis; you'd be surprised how many coasters you end up with 6 or 7 months down the track. It took a very, very long time for DVD media to get to a point where it could be considered a professional-grade storage format with an industry-acceptable longevity, and BD-Rs are still not there yet. There is no legendary, Taiyo Yuden media of the BD-R world as of yet, they're all fairly mediocre. 8x recording speed is pushing it.

  • tomwood on 18/02/2014 - 04:04

    Very nice, if it's discontinued I wonder why?
    Another model, the SBW-06C2X-U is marketed as being a '3D writer' - but I doubt a difference would be required for writing in 3D?

    • EnALup on 18/02/2014 - 09:56
      +1

      lol. I also thought if the drive had two heads to write the left and right eye data. I think it is just a gimmick. It might be a bit faster than the old one.

    • tomwood on 18/02/2014 - 15:08

      Yeah, and not even, if you compare them everything else is the same! (Except bundled software…) - and not even sure if it is newer…

  • hexedhavoc on 18/02/2014 - 04:28

    I see it as 89?

  • Fixit on 18/02/2014 - 07:34

    Yup showing at $89.00 Is There some sort of discount code?

  • Smerch on 18/02/2014 - 07:42

    Yea still $89 on their website.
    Here is a promotion:
    http://www.msy.com.au/images/ADbanner/eletter/17022014/onlin…

    • TheOneWhoKnocks on 18/02/2014 - 08:13
      +1

      It says available at certain stores only according to the banner. In-store only…

      • hexedhavoc on 18/02/2014 - 08:26

        DOH

        • TheOneWhoKnocks on 18/02/2014 - 15:40

          It wasn't in the description or the title hence that's why I said it…

        • Smerch on 18/02/2014 - 19:23

          Thank you
          Updated

  • npc on 18/02/2014 - 09:11
    +1

    What is a common scenario of use, backup, pirating ps games? Had no idea they are still around.

    • Cheap Steve on 18/02/2014 - 09:58

      would also like to know what Ozbargainers primarily use these for?

  • sengork on 18/02/2014 - 09:35

    Can this drive perform media burn quality scans?

  • nelsonzzbao on 18/02/2014 - 09:48

    wonderful goods.

  • atlas on 18/02/2014 - 09:54

    This will be handy for burning wedding and family videos. Cheers.

  • samlor on 18/02/2014 - 09:59

    Cheap but pity it does not come with any blu-ray playing software according to ASUS specs.

    Edit: actually it apppears to come with Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 according to some websites but it would be nice if someone could confirm.

    And, according to ASUS it is Windows 8 compatible but according to Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 is not Windows 8 compatible so I assume data operations will work in Windows 8 but not blu-ray playback. To be fair I have yet to find a locally available blu-ray drive that bundles Windows 8 compatible playing software. Anyone?

    • [Deactivated] on 18/02/2014 - 11:04

      you can find quite many BD players (software) online though, but I'm not sure what can be used to burn.. Nero?

    • Gnostikos on 18/02/2014 - 13:34

      Why the heck would you use that bundled garbage?

      Just install K-Lite Codec Pack Full and use Media Player Classic to play 99% of audio/video formats under the sun.

      Or VLC if you don't want too many options.

      • samlor on 18/02/2014 - 14:12

        I agree that should cater for most playback requirements but I think not 3D blu-ray via HDMI 1.4 to 3D display.

    • tomwood on 18/02/2014 - 15:11

      Blu-Ray's proprietary codec has still not been licenced to any free software as far as so know.

  • happykamper on 18/02/2014 - 10:27

    @atlas: You might want to refer to previous posts, where people are stating that bluray is not a reliable storage media for backups; especially something so important. You're probably better off going with multiple cloud storage accounts.

    • atlas on 18/02/2014 - 10:56

      Sorry I meant for distribution to friends/family. For backup I have it mirrored through my HP Microserver :)

    • lplau on 18/02/2014 - 12:21
      +1

      Always have backups on multiple media.

      DVD
      Bluray
      SD Card
      Web
      HDD….

      Never just use 1 type of media.

    • Gnostikos on 18/02/2014 - 13:40

      You're probably better off going with multiple cloud storage accounts.

      Unless they're paid cloud storage accounts; no way. And no business would ever consider cloud storage for their data. Too many privacy concerns for confidential stuff, too easy to hack and is subject to the arbitrary deletion of the site owners if they simply find something about your account they don't like. Their ToS's allow them to just take your data down at will.

      Like Iplau said, you just spread your risk over physical mediums. HDDs, optical media and perhaps some flash memory if you can be stuffed.

      RAID 1 and about 3 HDDs is what I've stuck by and I haven't lost any of my data in about 14 years. I still have files from the mid-90s that are perfectly intact.

  • zliu18 on 18/02/2014 - 10:54
    -1

    Interface is USB 2.0 probably it is too slow for writing data.

    • justtoreply on 18/02/2014 - 12:37
      +2

      That's a stupid conclusion. It's so stupid I dont think I even need to justify why.

  • Gnostikos on 18/02/2014 - 15:11

    Just picked up one at MSY Balcatta (WA) this morning. 9 more left.

    Date of manufacture on mine is April 2013, so it seems these were discontinued fairly recently.

    • Gnostikos on 18/02/2014 - 16:45

      Just a tip: Does not work with unpowered USB hubs but works fine with USB hubs that have their own AC power supply.

    • lplau on 18/02/2014 - 20:36

      Doubt they are discontinued.
      If they are, then they would have done this special at all the stores.

      It was most likely "we choose the stores which don't seem to get as many people… and then do a local promotion to get people to buy more $hit from us"

  • prince22 on 18/02/2014 - 16:40
    +3

    Picked one from Kingsford. They are giving the PRO version. See http://www.asus.com/Optical_Drives/SBC06D2XU_PRO/

  • Smerch on 18/02/2014 - 19:27

    Eh just noticed that it is only 1 day special.
    Still even at $89 it is a good buy.

  • [Deactivated] on 22/02/2014 - 13:34
    +1

    By the time blu-ray became affordable, people had moved on to just using HDD's.

    • Gnostikos on 22/02/2014 - 17:13

      We also out-grew the capacity of Blu-Ray before it ever became mainstream and there's been virtually zero development on the long-awaited 500GB discs that were supposed to come out, so people could get an entire TV show on one disc.

      It's still about $30 or more for one BD-R XL (100GB) disc. For the price of 500GB of Blu-Ray storage you can have a 2TB WD Caviar Black.

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