![]() Hopefully, the price will come down as production volume increases. Plus, in an age where optical media costs pennies per disc, the technology is so new that LightScribe CDs and DVDs cost more than a dollar each. ![]() While the etching process is easy, it's also tediously slow, taking nearly 16 minutes to etch a simple design-twice as long as burning a data CD. Alas, your color choices are limited to black images or text on a gold background. Just whip up a design (or choose from the hundreds of templates provided), select the drive as the printer, and LightScribe does the rest, etching the disc's surface with the drive's laser. The software lets you either supply an image or type text onto the surface. ![]() With technology licensed by Hewlett Packard, LightScribe is nothing short of magic-it'll make most people throw away the Sharpie markers they use for labeling discs. After you've burned a disc, flip it over and put it back in the burner you can use the drive's laser to etch a label into the surface. For the Mac crowd, LaCie offers a similar FireWire-based drive without LightScribe at the same price.īased on the USB 2.0 standard, the LaCie Slim DVD+/-RW Drive with LightScribe also works with the slower USB 1.1 spec. Because the disc etcher works with only PC software, the drive doesn't come with Mac or Linux drivers. During our week testing the drive, the software balked only once at creating a disc otherwise, we had no problems. LaCie packs a good assortment of software with the Slim DVD+/-RW drive, including Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 (the basic version), Easy CD and DVD Creator, and DVDMax movie player, as well as Sonic's SureThing CD/DVD Labeler, which works with LightScribe. Its travel weight is an extremely light 1.1 pounds, and the whole thing is so small that it makes our Micro Solutions Backpack DVD+/-RW drive look like a dinosaur waiting for an asteroid. LaCie Hard Drives 4L, LaCie LightScribe Labeler for Linux, Burn high quality labels from your DVD drive, Software. The package comes with a tiny AC adapter and a cable to power the drive from a notebook. After installing macOS Big Sur on my 2019 iMac (27') my external hard drive (LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 3) does not go into power-saving mode when I put the iMac to sleep. All told, it weighs just 12 ounces and is shorter but thicker than a DVD-movie case. Porsche-designed case is a Toshiba SDR6572M drive with 2MB of hardware cache to smooth the wrinkles out of disc creation. The documentation includes a helpful quick-start booklet and a thorough 34-page electronic manual. The LaCie Slim DVD+/-RW with LightScribe comes ready to roll, automatically loading its drivers for Windows XP systems one of the two included CDs has drivers for Windows 98 or Me machines. LaCie Slim DVD+/-RW with LightScribe (USB 2.0)
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