50 GB Blu-ray drive for MacPro/G5

[Shawn Erickson]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Shaun Wexler wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Shaun Wexler wrote:
>
>> Yeah, even with a dedicated ATA-133 PCI card (Mac have 30/60/100  
>> internal buses only) it would take nearly 7 hours for a full 50 GB  
>> Blu-ray disc!
>
> Bad math's.  At 36 mbps, 2x, it would take about 1 hour for 25 GB,  
> 2 hrs per 50 GB.

The drives specs list 9 MB / sec as its max rate for writing. So we  
are looking at just over 1.5 hours to file a 50 GB disk if the max  
write speed can be sustained by the drive.

-Shawn