Bd-Re And Bd-Combo Drives; Bd-Re Or Bd-Combo Drive (Depending On The Model); Table 1-3 Blu-Ray Disc Drive Specifications - Toshiba Satellite Maintenance Manual

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BD-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.
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Item
Data Transfer Rate (Mbytes/s)
Access Time (ms)
Average Random Access
Data Buffer Size (Mbytes)
Formats Supported
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BD-RE or BD-Combo drive (depending on the model)

Table 1-3 Blu-ray Disc Drive specifications
BD-ROM Mode
33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
16.6 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
130
2MB
BD:
DVD:
DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R,
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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DVD-ROM Mode CD-ROM Mode
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