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The optical drive on your Dell business system allows you to back up your data and images by burning them to CD or DVD. Choose between CD and DVD based on your capacity requirements. If you’re looking for more storage capacity than CDs or single-layer, DVDs offer double-layer (DL) DVD disks with up to 8.5 GB of storage. Higher capacities are supported on Blu-ray drives, available on select DellTM  Optiplex TM , LatitudeTM , VostroTM  and PrecisionTM  desktop and notebook systems.

The chart below provides approximate capacity* to help determine how much storage you will need. The system you are configuring may not include all of the options listed here.

Dual Layer Blu-ray Disc (50GB)Blu-ray Disc (25GB)DVD (4.7 GB)DL DVD (8.5 GB)DL DVD (9.5 GB)DL DVD-RAM (9.4GB)
Pivot tables (7 MB)*Up to 7,138Up to 3, 569Up to 670Up to 1,340Up to 1,434Up to 1,343
Documents
(66 KB for 8 pages)*
Up to 757,050Up to 378,585Up to 71,200Up to 128,750Up to 142,424Up to 142,424
Presentations (822 KB for 8 pages)*Up to 60,798Up to 30,399Up to 5700Up to 10,340Up to 11,435Up to 11,435
Training Videos (71 MB per 60-second video)*Up to 698Up to 349Up to 66Up to 119Up to 132Up to 132

*Number of songs, images, hours and pages that can be stored varies depending on file size, OS and loaded software applications.

Additional Software Options
CyberLink PowerDVDTM  (Available on DVD-ROM and DVD+RW offerings)
CyberLink PowerDVD is a DVD playback experience for the PC. Built-in features such as CyberLink Eagle VisionTM , Cyberlink Pano VisionTM  and CyberLink Multi-Channel Environment ImpressionTM  are designed to enhance movie playback with CyberLink PowerDVD DX. CyberLink Eagle Vision is designed to deliver improved colors and detail by intelligently adapting video contrast and colors across movie scenes. CyberLink Pano Vision automatically adjusts DVD playback based on wide- or standard-screen ratios. CyberLink Multi-Channel Environment Impression can allow users to maximize their audio system’s capabilities, delivering multi-channel audio from any two-channel ecoded audio track. CyberLink PowerDVD is compatible with Windows Vista®  and Windows®  XP.

Roxio CreatorTM  DE (Available on DVD+RW offerings)
Roxio Creator DE is a CD/DVD burning solution for enjoying and sharing digital movies, photos, music and other files. It allows users to quickly burn and copy data, audio, photo and video CDs and DVDs. Roxio Creator DE is compatible with Windows Vista®  and Windows®  XP.

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