14 DAY TRIAL // Since many notebooks, especially ultrabooks, lack an optical drive of their own, Pioneer has created a portable drive of that sort.
Called BDR-XS05J, and revealed through Hermitage Akihabara, it can read and write pretty much every relevant type of disk, from CD (compact disk) format to DVD and, of course, Blu-ray.
CDs can be scribed at 24X, for example. Blu-ray disks record at up to 6X, DVDs at up to 8X.
What's more, single- and double-layer BD-R and BD-R LtH are scribed at up to 6X, while triple- and quadruple-layer disks can be written onto at 4X.
That's right, this USB 3.0-connected portable peripheral can write data on BDXL Blu-ray disks (up to 100/128 GB storage space).
Pioneer has bundled the drive with a bunch of programs (InstantBurn 5, PowerBackup 2, LabelPrint 2, and MediaShow 6, Cyberlink PowerDVD 10, PowerDirector 10, PowerProducer 5, Power2Go 7).