Sony ODSD280U Optical Disc Archive Stand-Alone Gen 2 USB 3.0 Drive

A starter system ideal for the camera owner/operator or small studio is the Optical Disc Archive Stand Alone drive with a USB 3.0 interface that plugs directly into compatible Macintosh and Windows computers. The Optical Disc cartridge loaded into the drive is seen as a single volume attached drive providing a desktop solution that's ideal for long-term file protection and data management.• Fast Transfer Speeds: Provides an average read rate of 2 Gbps (250 MB/s) and an average write rate of 1 Gbps (125 MB/s) with verify• Long Life - write-once (WORM) and rewritable large volume media - store from 300 GB to 3.3 TB in a single data cartridge Virtually data migration-free system• Fast random file access to data files• Easy-to-connect USB 3.0 interface• Open Platform Architecture-Universal Disk Format (UDF) • Includes license for Content Manager software• Intergenerational backwards compatibility High-Capacity Disc Structure By implementing six discrete recording layers (three on each side) and recording on both land and groove, the new media standard achieves a revolutionary jump in storage capacity, to 300 GB per disc. World's First 8-Channel Optical Drive Unit Sony's original drive unit holds four laser head assemblies, each containing two heads for a total of eight laser heads. With two assemblies positioned at the top and two at the bottom, the system can read/write both sides of the disc at the same time. Content Manager A Content Manager software license is supplied with the drive for stand-alone usage.• Simple graphical user interface to manage files easily• Supports metadata creation• Printing labels to improve efficiency• Automatic proxy and thumbnail generation• MD5 checksum for archive data• Import/export metadata created in the cartridge unit