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Toast titanium 11 el capitan5/29/2023 OWC notes that some resellers will also offer a further step-up version of Mercury Pro bundled with Roxio’s Toast 14 Titanium and Blu-ray-burning software.Ĭonnecting Mercury Pro to a Mac is as simple as plugging in a USB cable and flipping on the power. As previously noted, the Blu-ray version of Mercury Pro comes with two blank BD-R discs. Because of its physical size, and the requirement of external power, Mercury Pro is clearly meant to be set on a desk and left there, rather than carried in a bag and used on the go. Four clear rubber feet keep the metal from scuffing against your desk’s surface.Įvery Mercury Pro arrives with a thick, shielded USB 3.0 cable and a small external wall adapter that’s required to maintain stable power both parts speak to a desire to guarantee error-free, interruption-free burning, a prerequisite for disc mastering. Should you want to secure the drive in an office, there’s a slot for a Kensington-style lock above the power switch. Located alongside power and USB 3.0 ports on the back, a rear power switch turns the drive on and off. Measuring 6.6″ wide by 8.3″ deep by 2.2″ tall, the new Mercury Pro is a large and solid-looking external drive, using a Mac-matching sandblasted finish on the front, sides, top, and bottom, except for a large stripe of brushed metal on the centers of the top and bottom surfaces. A subtly convex button on the front right side manually opens and closes the disc tray, though your Mac can eject a disc in software. There are also 100GB M-DISCs, which sell for $20-$25 per disc, and are not compatible with either Mercury Pro, as they require a BDXL M-Disc burner. These 25GB discs work with the $135 Mercury Pro Blu-ray burner, and can be had for under $5 each in bulk OWC sells them in 3-packs for $14.97 or 15-packs for $67.50. Next are 25GB Blu-ray Discs, which is enough capacity that eight discs could fully back up the average person’s most precious photos. The first are 4.7GB DVDs these are the only M-DISCs that work with the entry-level $78 Mercury Pro, and sell for $2-$3 each. There are currently three types of M-DISCs. Department of Defense,” resisting “extreme conditions of light, temperature, humidity and more.” As blustery as the claims may sound, independent tests have subsequently demonstrated their superior resistance versus standard recordable optical discs. M-DISCs will certainly survive much longer, and much harsher conditions, than typical recordable discs. Millenniata, the developer of M-DISC, boldly promises that “your data will be safe for centuries,” and notes that the discs have withstood “rigorous testing by the U.S. While the chemically-induced color changes in standard recordable discs wear off over time, M-DISC’s pits - like vinyl records and professionally-mastered optical discs - remain intact so the disc can continue to be read for years. Unlike most recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, which store data by making microscopic color changes to their rings, an M-DISC writing surface becomes physically pitted with real grooves during the burning process. $78 model burns DVDs, $135 model burns DVDs + Blu-RaysĮven if the name’s not familiar, M-DISC is based upon fundamentally sound technologies.
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