ASUS ZenDrive U7M burn DVDs M-DISC and protects data for eternity

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 Milleniata 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 M-DISC DVD and BR 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.

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 can not 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, 15 DVD + R M-DISC are proposed at 55 euro via Amazon (can of course find more or less favorable prices). Appreciated the fact that ASUS has included in the package of U7M ZenDrive two DVDs M-DISC.

ASUS ZenDrive U7M

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

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

Interface

USB 2.0

Operating System Compatibility

Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Mac® OS X® 10.6 or higher

software included

Cyberlink Power2Go 8

Cyberlink PowerBackup

E-Green

Minimum system requirements

CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon ™ 2100+

RAM: 512MB

HDD: 10GB

Dimensions 142.5 x 135.5 x 13.9 mm

Weight

228 grams