Optical Drive - Fujitsu Siemens Computers AMILO D1845 Operating Manual

Optical drive

Your notebook is delivered with an optical drive. Depending on the variant, your notebook is
equipped with a combo drive (CD-RW/DVD), a DVD+RW drive or a DVD±RW dual drive.
Optical drives can either only read or both read and write different optical data storage media. The
meaning of the respective optical data storage media is described in the following:
CD-ROM
Abbreviation for C ompact D isc - R ead O nly M emory. A CD-ROM is an optical data storage medium
that can contain a maximum of 700 Mbytes. These data cannot be changed.
CD-R
Abbreviation for C ompact D isc R ecordable. A CD-R is an optical data storage medium that can only
be written with a maximum of 700 Mbytes of data. Then these data cannot be changed, but can be
read as often as desired.
CD-RW
Abbreviation for C ompact D isc R e W riteable. A CD-RW is an optical data storage medium that can
be written with a maximum of 700 Mbyte of data a virtually unlimited number of times. This means
the data can be deleted and changed.
DVD (DVD-ROM and DVD video)
Abbreviation for D igital V ersatile D isc or D igital V ideo D isc. A DVD is an optical data storage
medium that can contain a maximum of 17 Gbytes of data. These data cannot be changed.
DVD+R/DVD-R
Abbreviation for D igital V ersatile D isc R ecordable or D igital V ideo D isc R ecordable. A DVD+R or a
DVD-R is an optical data storage medium that can only be written once with a maximum of
4.7 Gbytes of data. Then these data cannot be changed, but can be read as often as desired.
DVD+R and DVD-R are different standards. DVD+Rs and DVD-Rs can only be written by
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drives which support the respective standard.
DVD+RW/DVD-RW
Abbreviation for D igital V ersatile D isc or D igital V ideo D isc R e W riteable. A DVD+RW or a DVD-RW
is an optical data storage medium that can be written with a maximum of 4.7 Gbytes of data virtually
an unlimited number of times. This means the data can be deleted and changed.
DVD+RW and DVD-RW are different standards. DVD+RWs and DVD-RWs can only be
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written by drives which support the respective standard.
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