Sony’s DRX-S70U portable optical burner needs a diet (or a spec check)

Sony_drx840_optical_driveThis caught my eye over at Crave since I might be in the market for a portable optical drive. I’ve been using a three-year-old USB drive from my old Toshiba M205 with my UMPC for over a year and it’s acting a little flaky. Sony just introduced a new line of optical burners and one of them is a slim, portable burner. The DRX-S70U offers a USB 2.0 interface along with the following write speeds and formats:

  • 8X DVD+/-R
  • 4X DVD+/-R DL
  • 8X DVD+RW
  • 6X DVD-RW
  • 24X CD-R/RW

I’m sure I can find a burner under the $129 price tag for the DRX-S70U and there has to be models that are lighter. At 2.7 pounds (which just doesn’t sound right to me), the burner would be heavier than my Samsung Q1P that I’d connect it to! The search continues…

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