LaCie has announced it is now shipping its LaCie Slim Blu-ray external drive. USB 2.0-powered, the drive is meant to act as a notebook companion and lets them write to blank single- (25GB) and dual-layer (50GB) Blu-ray discs. It can also read and write to single- and dual-layer DVDs.
Write speeds for single-layer Blu-ray discs are 6X and slow to 4X for dual-layer. The drive includes Cyberlink Blu-ray Disc Suite, which contains nine Windows apps for backup as well as burning and editing both photos and videos.
The Slim is now shipping for $265
