The Pocket Writer products will play and record 3.2-inch optical discs, but not the more common 4.7-inch discs. Three versions are planned; mock-ups were shown at a Taipei news conference. The PW100 will be compatible with CD, the PW200 with DVD, and the PW300 with Blu-ray Disc, says Jennifer Ho, a representative of BenQ’s storage division.

All of the products will support USB On The Go, also known as USB host mode. With this technology, users can plug in USB-compatible devices such as digital still cameras and video cameras and transfer data directly onto the optical disc without the need to send it via a personal computer. The drives will read Compact Flash, Secure Digital (SD), MiniSD, MultiMediaCard (MMC), or Memory Stick memory cards. The PW200-model will also have a Bluetooth wireless connection.

This is something I am going to look forward to. If it’s small and light enough I can see using this on trips and leaving the notebook at home. I am afraid of the HDD versions of this because if the HDD crashes you’re out all those pics…with this you can do 2 DVDs and not worry…also, this is so much cheaper then the other solutions.

Anyone else?

Erik

I, personally, tend to trust more on HDD than on CDs or DVDs.
They are just so unprotected… A scratch away from total loss..

[quote author=“Lourenco”]I, personally, tend to trust more on HDD than on CDs or DVDs.
They are just so unprotected… A scratch away from total loss..

Four words for you: cuneiform on clay tablets. If you want your data to survive nuclear bombardments, Assyrian invasions and 6000 years of neglect, it’s definitely the way to go.