The fastest Blu-ray burner that available today is just 2x write speed, media manufacturer TDK is already looking toward for 4x speed and faster drives writing 200+GB of data to 8 layers discs. The company is working hard on discs that won’t take 5 hours to burn and the first fruit of this labor — a 25GB platter rated at 6x — was recently unveiled at Japan’s Eighth Data Storage Expo — although don’t expect it to hit stores until next year.

[via Engadget]