DESC: The Dell™ DVD+RW Combo Drive brings all the advantages of a DVD+R/RW burner, a DVD-ROM, a CD-RW and a CD-ROM to a single drive — eliminating the hassle of carrying multiple modules in your briefcase. The all-in-one drive allows you to burn DVD+R/RW discs, CDs and read almost all DVD and CD media. It reads DVDs with 8X speed and writes to DVD+R and DVD+RW at 4X speed. The drive also reads and writes to CD media at 24X and rewrites CD-RWs at 16X. It will prepare you for future software and large data files that will be released on DVD-ROM. With DVD+RW/+R and CD-RW capability you can easily create your own custom DVDs or data CDs for back-up or transfer purposes. The drive is capable of playing all your existing CD-ROMs, DVD movies, music CDs, and CDs that you have created with your CD burner.