Hitachi-LG BlueRay writer

Hitachi-LG GBW-H10N is the only BluRay writer capable of writing 4X speed on BD-R and BD-RE disks. That means speed 18MB/s and that is now i would say best possible spped, because of system throughput. Current harddrives read data in speed around 50-60 MB per second, but thats only when readed data are on same track and together. When there are mechanical delays (moving heads to new position, waiting until drive rotates to right position etc..) speed is going down. There are some delays between riding data from one device, and send them to another to write, so i think that real speed will be less than proclaimed 4X. But there is big plus, because this drive can also read and write CDs and DVDs. Price is set to $923, which is pretty fair. (Whoa, after long time first article where is not placed AMD.. but ist really only because AMD make many things those days.)