128GB Pioneer flagship BDR-2209 is the world’s fastest 16x internal Blu-ray drive

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The Pioneer flagship BDR-2209 is the worlds fastest 16x internal Blu-ray drive that also supports 128GB BDXL media

$99.99 estimated list price (currently around $85.99 at newegg.com as of 1-14-2014)

Pioneer in late 2013 released their 4th generation top of the line 128GB BDXL Blu-ray drive that writes single layer 25GB Blu-ray discs up to 16x writing speed. At 16x writing speed this makes the flagship Pioneer BDR-2209 computer drive the worlds fastest Blu-ray drive with the bonus of full support for 100GB and 128GB BDXL optical media.

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http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Computer/Computer+Drives/BDR-2209

The Pioneer BDR-2209 for around $85.99 street price comes with PowerDVD 10 software that allows consumers to play Blu-ray discs. Some other brands of Blu-ray computer drives do not come with any software to play Blu-ray discs.


Just like all intenal Pioneer BDXL Blu-ray drives to date, the BDR-2209 contains only an e-SATA one interface at 1.5Gbps speed. Since external USB 3.0 Pioneer BDXL Blu-ray drives are offering 5Gbps transfer speed over the USB 3.0 interface, the ideal internal BDXL drive should contain an e-SATA III jack that offers 6Gbps transfer speed. Of course, since optical discs are much slower then solid state drives and hard drives, e-SATA one at 1.5Gbps transfer speed should be fast enough. However e-SATA III interfaces can sometimes handshake better with e-SATA III and e-SATA II motherboards. Also e-SATA III 6Gbps interface is a popular spec that consumers look for. So in the future hopefully Pioneer will use e-SATA III interfaces on future BDXL Blu-ray internal drives.