If your laptop has an internal CD drive you can replace it with a DVDRW/ CDRW combo drive. This way you can read CD and DVD disks, play DVD titles, write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD +/-R, DVD +/- RW disks, and back up your important files/data to DVD or CD disks.

With a slim combination drive, mobile PC users can now create DVD videos and CD audio files all with the same drive. This allows users to burn and edit both work-related and personal digital productions on the fly and on the go.

The drive brings DVD recording to the mobile world and gives users a stepping stone to move from CD to DVD technology (for creating and storing family photos, files, videos, etc.). Based on the DVD +- R/RW format, combination drives support the most widely compatible DVD standards, giving consumers the highest level of compatibility with legacy DVD devices. This slim-drive supports writing DVD +-R/RW.

The powerful storage device is a functional technology that enables PC manufacturers to deliver unprecedented DVD and CD computing capabilities in their mobile devices. Until now, only desktop computers have had the luxury of DVD record ability (for applications such as audio/video editing and personal digital compilations).

DVD-RW or DVD-ROM/CD-RW:

Upgrades to the low-end DVD-ROM drive can include DVD-RW drives, CD-RW drives, or combination drives that will write to CD media but will read from DVDs and CDs. A DVD drive allows you to play DVD movies on your laptops and read big 4.7 GB DVD-ROMs, and a CD-RW drive allows you to write to CD-R and CD-RW discs, storing up to 640 MB of information on them. This is a handy method of backing up data while you are on the road, burning movies or audio CDs, or whatever you like.

Optical recorder drives are often marked with three different speed ratings. In these cases, the first speed is for write-once (R) operations, second for re-write (RW or RE) operations, and one for read-only (ROM) operations. For example a 12x/10x/32x CD drive is capable of writing to CD-R discs at 12x speed (1.76 MB/s), write to CD-RW discs at 10x speed (1.46 MB/s), and read from any CD discs at 32x speed (4.69 MB/s).

We offer the following internal laptop DVD and CD RW drives: Dell 8xDVD+ RW Drive Dual Layer Combo Drive, DELL DVDRW CDRW Combo Drive, Original Sony NEC BD 5500A Blu ray BD ROM Player, NEC DVD RW ND 6650A, Panasonic UJ 840 DVDRW, DVD RW CD RW Combo Drive for Dell Inspiron 2600 2650, etc.