The burning speeds of the drive make for impressive reading with 16x support for both DVD-R and DVD+R (that's six minutes for a full DVD), 8x DVD+RW (14 minutes for a DVD), 6x DVD-RW, 4x DVD-R Dual Layer, 8x DVD+R Dual Layer and 5x DVD-RAM, as well as 16x DVD-ROM and 48x/32x/48x on the CD side of things.