Overview
Blu-ray Disc & HD DVD are the next generation in optical storage; offering 15GB to 30GB (HD DVD) and 25GB to 50GB (Blu-ray Disc) of storage capacity on a disc.
Serial Date Technology
- Serial ATA is a 1.5Gbps evolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA physical storage interface used to connect storage devices such as hard disks/DVD/CD rewriters to the PC motherboard.
- Serial ATA is scalable enables design of smaller PCs and will allow future enhancements to the computing platform.
Lightscribe Technology
- Create silkscreen-quality disc labels direct from your PC with LightScribe.
- LightScribe is a laser printing technology on the exclusive LightScribe disc.
- Simply burn the data to a LightScribe disc/flip the disc over/place it back in the drive and burn the label.
Best price I can see: http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=GGC-H20L cheapest on staticice is $179. A unit like this would be perfect in a HTPC setup, in fact it's tempting me to use it in my one..