The disc may become damaged, causing data loss. • Be careful to prevent foreign objects, such as liquids or metal, from entering the drive. • Don’t interrupt the electric power while the drive is operating. • Please pay attention to handling Electrostatic Sensitive Devices, you may use anti-static products such as wrist straps, heel straps, mats to protect your body from electrostatic. 2 System Environment Operating Environment This unit can be operated in the system environment explained here. System • CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66 GHz), AMD Phenom 9450 (2.10 GHz) requirements or above. • O/S : Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP SP3. • RAM : 2 GB or more • HDD : Needed free space for Blu-ray Disc authoring (BD-R SL/DL: 60 GB, BD-R/RE XL (3 Layer): 100 GB, BD-R XL (4 Layer): 128 GB) Interface Serial ATA Drive bay 13.34 cm (5.25-inch) half-height bay required Power +5V/+12V power socket required Recommended BD-R SL : Sony, Panasonic. media manufacturer BD-R DL : Panasonic. BD-R XL (3 Layer)/ XL (4 Layer) : TDK. BD-R SL LTH : Taiyo Yuden. BD-RE SL : Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim, Sony. BD-RE DL/XL (3 Layer) : Panasonic. DVD-R :Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim. DVD-RW : JVC, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim. DVD+R : Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim. DVD+RW : Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim. DVD±R DL : Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim. DVD-RAM : Panasonic. M-Disc (DVD+R SL) : Millenniata CD-R : Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden. CD-RW : LG, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim. * Compatibility problem in write/read function may occur with media depending on the media manufacturing quality. Maximum write (or read) speed depends on system environments. * There may be some cases when motion picture playback is not smooth depending on bit rate. * Under Windows 8 operating system, a specific mainboard with nVidia GeForce 7025 Chipset may cause an abnormal operation. * Please visit to learn more about the M-DISCTM . • Playing Blu-ray Disc Movies *NOTICE* Graphic Card Monitor Driver Interface HDCP *2 Interface HDCP Resolution Digital AACS *1 Compliant DVI or HDMI Compliant DVI or HDMI Compliant 1024x768 or more (Recommended : 1920x1080) Due to copyright protection features, certain requirements must be met in order to playback BD movies on a computer. When using digital video connections, the monitor and graphics card must support High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Note that most monitors and graphics cards currently don’t support HDCP. But, most High Definition TVs and multimedia monitors do support HDCP. Refer to the PC or graphic card maker’s web site to see if your card supports HDCP. *Graphic Cards with following GPUs (Graphic Processing Unit) are recommended. - Blu-ray Disc playback: Intel G45, ATA radeon HD 2400, nVdia GeForce 7600GT or above. - 3D playback: Intel G45, ATA radeon HD2400, nVdia GeForce 8800GT or above. *When using ATI RadeonTM HD 1000 Series Graphic Card, some BLURAY movie title can not be played on Windows7 normally. It caused by giving up supporting the device driver of this Graphic Card by ATI RadeonTM . For more information, Please contact to customer service center or website of ATI RadeonTM . *1 Graphic card driver shall meet AACS compliance criteria. Please consult your graphics card vendor for proper driver solution. *2 HDCP (High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection): Required to view pre-recoded Blu-ray Disc which is copy protected. 3 . Occasionally CD-R and CD-RW discs written by a CD-R/RW drive cannot be read by other CD drives. These unreadable discs may need to be read using the CD-R/RW drive they were created with. The disc written using the CD-R/RW drive might not be readable by CD-ROMs other than Multi-read compatible (UDF compatible) CD-ROMs. Multiread compatible (UDF compatible) CD-ROMs are CD-ROMs that can read low reflectance and support Packet Write. . Please note: Certain software (i.e. particularly those including Video playback) may require a considerably increased specification PC to give acceptable results. While this Blu-ray Disc Rewriter can read DVD-video or BD-MV(BD-ROM) discs, decoding them to display on your pc’s monitor requires separate MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 decoding that is done by separate hardware (either an MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 decoder card or MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 decoding done by your video card), or separate software that you install to do MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 decoding. For further details, refer to the documentation that comes with MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 software. Location and Function of Controls Front Panel Rear Panel 1 21 2 43 1. Disc Tray 1. SATA Power Connector (15 pin) 2. Emergency Eject Hole 2. SATA Data Connector (7 pin) 3. Drive activity indicator The LED is used to indicate the operation of Writer. 4. Eject Button 4 Installing the Drive Before installing the drive, please note the following points. ¦ You will need the following: • A screw driver of a suitable size to fit the securing screw...