Sony's new portable Blu-ray Disc writer performed as expected throughout most of our tests. The BDX-S500U turned in some relatively good times when writing to BD-R and BD-R DL media and was able to read Blu-ray Discs at speeds as high as 6x. The drive also did reasonably well in our CD and DVD read tests. It read CD's at speeds as high at 24x and single layer DVD's at 8x. Writing CD's and DVD's wasn't a problem for the BDX-S500U either. For a portable drive, it turned in some respectable times and the writing quality was fairly good for the most part.



Link: CDRLabs