Sony DRU-710A User manual

• Double Layer DVD Burner for
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and
Windows® XP Operating Systems
• Burns enhanced 8.5GB DVD+R DL
(Double Layer) Discs
• Burns Standard 4.7GB DVD±R &
DVD±RW Discs
• Ultra High Performance
CD-R/RW Burning
• Includes Black Replacement Bezel
• Award Winning Nero® Software Suite
DRU-710A
The DRU-710A 16X Double Layer and Dual Format DVD Burner for Microsoft®
Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP Operating Systems. Double Layer DVDs
provides up to 8.5GB capacity on one DVD+R DL (Double Layer) disc giving you
plenty of room for more video and audio entertainment, photo archives, digital
images and information. You can even adapt the drive to your PC by replacing the front panel
with a black bezel, included for design flexibility – so you’ll have possibilities like no other!
NEW!
16X Burning
Burns DVD+R discs
at 16X Max., capable
of burning a full
disc in about
6 minutes

Features and Benefi ts:
• Burns DVD+R discs at 16X max, capable of
burning a full disc in about 6 minute.
• Burns 8.5GB DVD+R DL (Double Layer) discs
capable of storing up to 4 hours of MPEG-2
Video on single sided disc with 2 recording layers.
Recorded DVD+R DL discs compatible with many
consumer DVD players and DVD-ROM drives
• Burns standard 4.7GB DVD+R and DVD+RW
Discs and CD-R/RW too - One drive does it all!
• Maximum fl exibility & compatibility – Choose the
optimal DVD recordable media for your project
without sacrifi cing compatibility with your playback
hardware
• Award winning Nero™ Software bundle for burn-
ing all your video, music, and data to DVD or CD
• Includes Black replacement front bezel for match-
ing the drive to a black PC case
• Short form-factor drive fi ts well in smaller footprint
PC cases
• Music
• Photo
• Video
• Data
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Printed USA 6/04
B132 - 1.0
Sony Electronics Inc. Information Technology Products Division 3300 Zanker Road, San Jose, California 95134
DRU-710A
http://www.sony.com/dvdburners
Specifi cations:
PART NUMBER DRU-710A
DRIVE TYPE Internal Combination DVD-R/-RW,
DVD+RW/+R/+R DL, CD-R/RW Drive
MEDIA & MODES SUPPORTED DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/DVD+R DL/+RW:
DVD-ROM, DVD-Video
CD: CD-DA, CD-ROM (XA), CD Extra, Video
CD, Photo CD*, CD Text, multi-session
READ/WRITE SPEED Write (DVD-R) 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X Z-CLV max.**
Write (DVD-RW) 1X, 2X, 4X max. **
Write (DVD+R) 2.4X, 4X**, 8X ~ 12X P-CAV
max. **, 16X CAV max.**
Write (DVD+R DL) 2.4X max. ***
Write (DVD+RW) 2.4X, 4X max. **
Write (CD-R) 8X,16X, 24X ~ 40X P-CAV max.**,
48X CAV max**
Write (CD-RW) 4X, 10X,16X, 24X Z-CLV max. **
Read (DVD-ROM) 16X max.
Read (CD-ROM) 40X max.
SUSTAINED DATA TRANSFER RATE 16.2 MB/s max. (12X DVD-ROM)
AVERAGE ACCESS TIME 135 ms (DVD 16X)
140 ms (CD 48X)
INTERFACE EIDE (ATAPI)
BURST TRANSFER RATE 66 MB/s Ultra DMA66
BUFFER MEMORY 2MB
POWER CONSUMPTION +5V 1.5A max., +12V 1.5A max.
DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 5.75 X 1.63 X 6.75 inches
WEIGHT 2lbs.
PACKAGE CONTENTS Internal DRU-710A Double Layer DVD drive
Ahead NeroVision® Express DVD video editing
& authoring software
Ahead Nero® Burning ROM CD/DVD
mastering software
Ahead InCD® drive letter recording software
Ahead Nero Showtime™ soft DVD player software
Ahead Nero® BackitUp™ backup software
Black front panel replacement kit
ATAPI cable and mounting hardware
User’s Manual
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Pentium® III 800 MHz or faster (or equivalent)
CPU minimum
Pentium IV 1.6GHz or faster (or equivalent)
CPU is recommended for real time video
authoring/editing
128 MB of RAM
(256 MB or more for Windows XP Systems)
10GB of hard disk space
Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP Home or
Professional Operating Systems
WARRANTY One Year Limited
Not supported with the bundled software,
additional software required.
High-speed DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW,
DVD+RW CD-RW discs required.
Requires DVD+R DL media.
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