1 Hardware Overview
1.4BD-RE and BD-Combo drives
The BD-RE and BD-Combo drives accept 12-cm (4.72-inch) and 8-cm (3.15-inch) discs and can play BDs, DVDs and CDs. At maximum the drives can playback BD at 6x speed, DVD at 8x speed, read CD-ROM at 24x speed
The BD-RE and BD-Combo drives let you record data to writable CD/DVD discs. The drives can write CD-RW at 16x speed, CD-R at 24x speed, DVD-RAM at 5x speed, DVD+R DL at 4x speed, DVD-R DL at 4x speed, DVD+RW at 4x speed, DVD+R at 8x speed, DVD-RW at 6x speed, DVD-R at 8x speed.
In addition to being able to write to recordable CD/DVD discs, the BD-RE drive can write to BD-R as 6x speed, BD-R(DL) at 4x speed, BD-RE at 2x speed and BD-RE (DL) at 2x speed.
Figure 1-4 BD-RE or BD-Combo drive (depending on the model)
Table 1-3 Blu-ray Disc Drive specifications
| Item | | BD-ROM Mode | DVD-ROM Mode | CD-ROM Mode | |
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| | | | 33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2) | | |
| Data Transfer Rate (Mbytes/s) | | | 16.6 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2) | | |
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| Access Time (ms) | | | | | | |
| Average Random Access | | | 130 | | | |
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| Data Buffer Size (Mbytes) | | | 2MB | | | |
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| | | | BD: | | | |
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| | | | DVD: | | | |
| | | | DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, | |
| Formats Supported | | | DVD+-R (Double Layer), DVD+RW. | | |
| | | | CD: | | | |
| | | | CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROMXA, Photo CD | |
| | | | (Multi-Session), Video CD, CD-Extra (CD+), CD-Text. | |
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