BC-5500S (S-ATA)

Reads Blu-ray media and writes to DVD/CDs in the most compact form.


Slimline, lightweight and multi-talented- now with the fast S-ATA interface: The BD-5500S is the ideal as a combined application that reads your 25 GB BD-R and BD-RE media as well as your 50 GB dual-layer R and RE Blu-ray media with 4x* speed. It also read and writes to your DVDs and CDs. When storing data on DVD-Rs/DVD+Rs, it reach 8x speed and handle DVD-RAMs (max. 5x DVD speed) and DVD-RWs/DVD+RWs (max. 4x) dynamically.

All this at only 12.7 mm in height and weights just 0.2 kg.

Such performance in such a slim body: overwhelming!

Product specification

  • Read Speed (max.) BD: 4x*, DVD: 8x, CD: 24x
  • Write Speed DVD-R: 8x, DVD+R: 8x
    DVD-R DL: 4x, DVD+R9: 4x
    DVD-RW: 4x, DVD+RW: 4x
    DVD-RAM: 5x
    CD-R: 16x, CD-RW: 10x
  • Access time BD: 320 ms, DVD: 200 ms, CD: 190 ms
  • Mechanism Tray load mechanism for horizontal and vertical use
  • Interface S-ATA
  • Burst transfer rate 150 MByte/sec
  • Cache 4.5 MByte
  • Media supported BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+R9, DVD+RW, CD-R and CD-RW with 80mm and 120mm diameter
  • Modes supported BD-ROM, BD-AV, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, CD-DA, CD-ROM (XA), CD Extra, Video CD, Photo CD, CD Text
  • Compatibility MultiRead, MS Windows® XP and Windows Vista® compatible
  • Weight 0.2 kg
  • Dimensions 128 mm x 12.7 mm x 129 mm
  • * Default max. read speed is 2x. 4x can be achieved from FW. 1.05 and later.
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