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Using optical discs
An optical drive plays optical discs. Your optical drive can read standard CD and DVD discs, and if it is
a Blu-ray Disc ROM Drive, it can also read Blu-ray Discs (BDs).
These discs store information, such as music, photos, and movies. DVDs have a larger storage capacity
than CDs, and BDs have the largest capacity of all.
NOTE: Some of the optical drives listed may not be supported by your computer. The listed drives are
not necessarily all of the supported optical drives.
Some optical drives can also write to optical discs as described in the following table.
Optical drive type Write to CD-RW Write to DVD±RW/R Write to DVD±R DL Write label to
LightScribe CD or
DVD±RW/R
DVD±RW and CD-RW
SuperMulti DL Combo
Drive
Yes Yes Yes No
DVD±RW and CD-RW
SuperMulti DL Combo
Drive with LightScribe
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Blu-ray ROM DVD±R/
RW SuperMulti DL
Drive
Yes Yes Yes No
Blu-ray ROM with
LightScribe DVD±R/
RW SuperMulti DL
Drive
Yes Yes Yes Yes
CAUTION: To prevent possible audio and video degradation, loss of information, or loss of audio or
video playback functionality, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation while reading or writing to a disc.
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