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Review Summary
Accidents happen where life happens. Protect your favorite Adorama products and purchase a protection plan to stay covered from accidental damage, mechanical or electrical failure, and more.
If we can’t fix it, we’ll replace it at no additional cost.
Protect your product from drops, spills, and more.
Enjoy your gear without fear. We have you covered!
When regular use of your product over time results in mechanical or electrical failure.
We will never charge you a deductible after the purchase of a plan.
Our claims process is simple & easy and our customer service team is happy to help.
Adorama Protect powered by Extend is available for purchase to customers in the United States. Not available for purchase Internationally or in U.S. Territories.
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Windows7, Windows8, Windows8.1, Windows10
Intel Core Duo T2700/Core 2Duo E6300, AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 or faster
Intel G45, NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT, ATI Radeon X1600 or faster
HDCP compliant display required for Blu-ray playback, 1024 x 768 minimum display resolution
1GB required for Blu-ray playback and editing HD video
5GB minimum, 50 GB recommended
BD-R (Single/Dual), BD-RE (Single/Dual), M-DISC (Single/Dual)
DVD-R3, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, High speed DVD+RW, M-DISC(DVD)
CD-R, CD-RW, HS CD-RW, US CD-RW, US+CD-RW
BD-ROM (Single/Dual layer), BD-R (Single/Dual), BD-RE (Single/Dual), M-DISC (Single/Dual)
DVD-ROM (Single/Dual layer), DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM4, M-DISC(DVD)
CD-ROM (Mode 1&2), CD-ROM XA, Photo CD(Single/Multi-session), Video CD, CD-DA5, CD-Extra, CD-R, CD-RW
Serial ATA Revision 3.0
BD-R: 16x
BD-R DL: 14x
BD-R (LTH): 8x
BD-RE: 2x
BD-RE DL: 2x
M-DISC(BD) SL: 4x
M-DISC(BD) DL: 8x
DVD-R: 16x
DVD-R DL: 8x
DVD-RW: 6x
DVD+R: 16x
DVD+R DL:8x
DVD+RW: 8x
M-DISC(DVD): 4x
CD-R: 40x
CD-RW: 24x
BD-ROM SL: 12x
BD-ROM DL: 8x
BD-R: 12x
BD-R DL: 8x
BD-RE: 10x
BD-RE DL: 6x
M-DISC(BD) SL: 12x
M-DISC(BD) DL: 8x
DVD-ROM: 16x
DVD-ROM DL: 12x
DVD-R: 16x
DVD-R DL: 12x
DVD-RW: 12x
DVD+R: 16x
DVD+R DL: 12x
DVD+RW: 12x
DVD-RAM: 5x
M-DISC(DVD): 16x
CD-ROM: 40x
CD-R: 24x
CD-RW: 40x
4 MB
Horizontal or Vertical
5.83 x 1.67 x 7.08" (148 x 42.3 x 180mm)
26.1 oz (740g)
884938428217
Looking for the fastest drive in the market but already have software Then the BDR-212DBK is the drive for you. Then the BDR-212DBK is the drive for you. The BDR-212DBK drive is perfect for system builders, for those looking to upgrade to a fast Blu-ray burner, or for those who already have software.
The BDR-212DBK is an internal SATA drive. It can burn up to 16x on BD-R (25GB) media and up to 14x on BD-R dual layer (50GB) media, which is the fastest in the market. The drive is also backwards compatible, so it can read and write to most DVD and CD formats.
Running out of hard drive space Afraid of losing your valuable files when your hard drive crashes With Blu-ray BD-R dual layer (DL) discs, you can store the equivalent of 10 single layer DVDs. Now you can have a backup you can trust and with fewer discs. With M-DISC support, you can now back up your files with fewer discs than ever before.
The BDR-212DBK drive has features such as a QuickPlay which enables movies discs to be ready faster, a Noise Suppression design to minimize noise, an Anti-Dust design to increase durability, and Precision Writing Technology to minimize write errors. And of course being a Pioneer drive, the BDR-212DBK drive supports a wide range of blank media.
Long-term data protection with M-DISC Support
Support reading and writing M-DISC (DVD, BD: SL25GB/DL50GB) introduced by Millenniata, Inc.
Longer product life with improved drive software
To reduce deterioration of reading performance of disc due to dust and cigarette smoke with high dustproof performance and improved drive software. With this, BDR-212DBK has a prolonged life about twice of conventional models.
Faster burning
Up to 16x writing on BD-R single-layer discs, 14x on BD-R DL discs
Get to your files faster
With QuickPlay, the amount of time between inserting a ROM disc, and that disc being ready, has been reduced. For movies on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, the disc is ready faster when compared to previous Pioneer drives.
Wide blank media support
Pioneer strives to have best-in-class performance over a wide range of media - our drives achieve this for a large variety of BD and DVD media. Refer to the drive's media support list for all supported media and the write speed that can be achieved.