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    Satellite M 70-129 supports DVD-RAM?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by aigle, Feb 27, 2006.

  1. aigle

    aigle Notebook Consultant

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    I have DVD-RAM tool on my laptop, Toshiba satelite M 70- 129( with combo drive), but I don,t know whether my optical drive supports it or not. So how can I know?
    Also need some easy information about DVD-RAM.
     
    aigle, Feb 27, 2006
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  2. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    I'm pretty sure you'res has it. By combo drive, do you mean dvd-burner or cd-rw/dvd drive? If its the former, then you do have dvd-ram functionality, every current Toshiba notebook I've seen with dvd burners support dvd-ram.

    Dvd-Ram unfortunately is pretty hard and unpopular compared to like dvd-r and dvd-rw. Dvd-ram acts like a hard drive, you can just drag and drop files into the disc like a hard drive, you don't have to keep burning over and over again. Also, dvd-ram discs can be written to 100,000 times versus 1000 times for dvd-rw/dvd+rw
     
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  3. aigle

    aigle Notebook Consultant

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    I mean cd-rw/dvd drive. So I think I don,t have? But thn why they put the software for that?

    Also it seems quiet attractive to me , but i wond why it is not popular, is it expensive. How we cwn compare it with USB flash memory sticks?
     
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    Then no, you cannot burn DVD-RAM discs. I think the driver is there to let your drive be able to READ the discs instead.
     
    Rahul, Feb 28, 2006
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