Optiarc BC-5500A is a fruit of successful integration of the advanced components technologies from Sony and NEC. It sports Sony’s optical pickup module and NEC’s system LSI in the heart of the drive that enable 2x BD reading speed for flawless playback of high definition video. Thus the BC-5500A is the ideal device for notebook users that are interested in burning DVDs and CDs and additionally are looking to be able to play back Blu-ray Discs and watch HD-movies. The BC-5500A can also read write and rewrite all current CD and DVD formats. It burns DVD+/-R at up to 8x speed and DVD+/-RW and DVD+/-R DL at up to 4x speed. It also writes to DVD-RAM at 5x speed and to CD at up to 16x speed. Specifications Model Specifications Model BC-5500A Type Blu-ray Internal / External Internal Speed Reading DVD-ROM : 8X CD-ROM : 24X BD-ROM : 2X Writing DVD+R : 8X DVD-R : 8X DL DVD+R : 4X CD-R : 16X DL DVD-R : 4X Re-writing DVD+RW : 4X DVD-RW : 4X CD-RW : 10X DVD-RAM : 5X IDE Yes