The ThinkPad Blu-ray Burner Ultrabay Slim 9.5mm Drive (SATA) (43N3215) was discontinued in October 2009. Recommended replacement is the "Drive II" (43N3230) which appears to be $1200 (!) from Lenovo.
The original 43N3215 is as "cheap" as $400 on Amazon Marketplace though that's still a lot. Were there known problems with it, or was it just withdrawn to support more formats/higher speeds/etc.? A USB-powered Blu-Ray burner from Digistor is $200 on Amazon, don't know if it's good or a good price but ironically my two old external DVD burners were Digistor (and not USB powered). I think a BD burner would be good for backups at 25GB instead of DVDs at 8.5GB (DL). I'd prefer an internal (to the Ultrabase) drive but not for $1200. Any thoughts or insights? Thanks! -- Andrew mailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
