Fujitsu Siemens Computers AMILO Operating Manual page 52

Working with the notebook
DVD+RW/DVD-RW
DVD+RW DVD-RW
Abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc ReWriteable. 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 written by drives which support the respective standard.
DVD+R DL/DVD-R DL (Double Layer)
DVD+RDL/DVD-RDL
Abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc Recordable Double Layer or Digital Video Disc
Recordable Double Layer. A DVD+R DL or a DVD-R DL is an optical data storage
medium that can only be written once with a maximum of 8.5 GBytes of data. Then these
data cannot be changed, but can be read as often as desired.
DVD-R LF (with Label Flash support)
DVD-RLF
Abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc Recordable Label Flash. A DVD-R LF 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. This
type of data carrier is suitable for direct labelling with Label Flash.
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
This data format can only be read or written by Blu-ray drives.
Blu-ray is an optical storage medium which comes in three different types:
• BD-ROM: These data cannot be changed, but can be read as often as desired.
• BD-R: The data memory can only be written once. Afterwards the data
can be read as often as desired.
• BD-RE: The data memory can be written and re-written virtually any number of
times, so the data can be deleted and/or changed.
The maximum memory capacity is 25 - 50 GBytes of data (25 GBytes per memory layer).
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