ASUS ZenDrive U7M burn DVDs M-DISC and protects data for eternity
ASUS Announces New USB external DVD burner ZenDrive U7M, a product that is compatible with DVDs M-DISC made to last forever or almost (more than 1000 years have declared unit time approaching this concept).
The cloud is a really great innovation and, in the future, the amount of data that will find the hotel in the ” cloud ” is set to grow. Despite the growing trend, not everyone is now willing to entrust to remote servers and to subjects cloud service providers the archiving task of valuable data that, as such, we tend to guard jealously.
Pursuing the objective of maintaining safely and completely released from the web their data, traditional optical media appear in many respects one of the safest solutions, if only by their nature inherently offline. If the safety aspect is then combines that of duration, then the optical media still has a lot to say.
The M-DISC to Millenniata have been around for several years and focus the aspect of the duration of the support to provide something extra in the storage segment of data. According to the company, the DVD and BR M-DISC are designed to preserve the data stored for over 1000 years, the very near term to the concept of ” eternity ” (after all, it is humanly impossible to contradict Milleniata). To store data in the M-DISC requires special devices, such as the ASUS ZenDrive U7M announced today, with a DVD burner that supports (also) DVDs M-DISC.
In greater detail the characteristics of ASUS ZenDrive U7M (SDRW-08U7M-U) should clarify that it is a USB external CD writer, by the reduced thickness and marketed under a suite of applications that allow you to manage the product.
CyberLink Power2Go 8 simplifies the burning process and offers an optional feature for encryption of data, while Nero BackItUp for Android is a complete backup solution for data stored in smartphones and Android tablet.
Point of the new ZenDrive, strength is the ability to manage the M-DISC DVD, which adopt a special laser technology by which the data is etched in a very robust and durable storage layer to the lighting conditions, extreme temperature and humidity.
A solution that has advantages not only compared to the cloud, but also taking into account the average duration of hard disks and other writable media. If you just cannot help the cloud, Asus offers to buyers of ZenDrive U7M unlimited storage space on ASUS WebStorage free for six months.
Blank DVD M-DISC are on average more expensive than DVDs that do not use the patented technology from Millenniata; to have a benchmark, support +R M-DISC 15 DVD media are proposed at $42.99 via Amazon (can of course find more or less favorable prices). Appreciated the fact that ASUS has included in the package of ZenDrive U7M two DVDs M-DISC. The new proposal from the ZenDrive line is sold at a price of $29.99. Detailed technical specifications to follow.
ASUS ZenDrive U7M – Specifications
| Read Speed | DVD ± R, DVD + R (M-DISC), DVD ± RW, DVD-ROM, DVD ± R (DL), DVD-ROM (DL): 8X DVD-RAM: 5X CD-R / RW / ROM: 24X DVD video playback: 4X VCD playback: 16X Playing Audio CD: 10X |
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| Write speed | DVD ± R, DVD + RW: 8X DVD-RW, DVD ± R (DL): 6X DVD-RAM: 5X CD-R / RW: 24X DVD + R (M-DISC): 4X |
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| Interface | USB 2.0 | |
| Operating System Compatibility | Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Mac® OS X® 10.6 or higher |
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| Software included | Cyberlink Power2Go 8 Cyberlink PowerBackup E-Green |
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| Minimum system requirements | CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon ™ 2100+ RAM: 512MB HDD: 10GB |
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| Dimensions | 142.5 x 135.5 x 13.9 mm | |
| Weight | 228 grams |
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