page_title: Blu-ray Disc recordable
hierarchical_section_title: Blu-ray Disc recordable
caption_attribution_description: A photo of a blank rewritable Blu-ray disc. These discs will not play in most commercial Blu-ray disk players, only on personal computers.
context_page_description: Blu-ray Disc Recordable refers to two direct to disc optical disc recording technologies that can be recorded on to a Blu-ray-based optical disc with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written to once, whereas Blu-ray Disc Recordable Erasable can be erased and re-recorded multiple times. Disc capacities are 25 GB for single-layer discs, 50 GB for double-layer discs, 100 GB for triple-layer, and 128 GB for quadruple-layer.
  The minimum speed at which a Blu-ray Disc can be written is 36 megabits per second.
context_section_description: Blu-ray Disc Recordable (BD-R) refers to two direct to disc optical disc recording technologies that can be recorded on to a Blu-ray-based optical disc with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written to once, whereas Blu-ray Disc Recordable Erasable (BD-RE) can be erased and re-recorded multiple times. Disc capacities are 25 GB for single-layer discs, 50 GB for double-layer discs, 100 GB ("XL") for triple-layer, and 128 GB for quadruple-layer (in BD-R only).
  The minimum speed at which a Blu-ray Disc can be written is 36 megabits (4.5 megabytes) per second.
caption: A blank rewritable Blu-ray Disc (BD-RE)
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