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    Does it take a lot longer to burn a dvd than a cd?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by david4455, Feb 21, 2007.

  1. david4455

    david4455 Notebook Consultant

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    I am burning a dvd at the moment of some data...it is taking forever....I have never had a dvd burner before...just a cd burner and it went much faster..... is this typical?
     
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    yes..It generally takes a DVD to burn longer than a CD. CD write speeds can go up to around 32X-52X, while a DVD generally writes around 4X-16X
     
    MXandSXracer21, Feb 21, 2007
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    Usually. The variance between the two times (CD v. DVD) will depend on how fast your drive(s) can write to either medium. DVD burning uses a different script for notating speeds, since it writes "more" per second. That means that a 2.4x DVD burner may write the equivalent of a 8x in CD. I don't remember the actual conversion, so don't quote me on that figure I just made up.
     
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    it takes longer to burn dvds and even more if it is a a dual layered disc dvds uaully max out at 8x or a bit more in laptops and cds can go up to 52x thas a little over 5 times more
     
    shaheenarshan, Feb 21, 2007
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    I've found burning speeds for me to be roughly proportional to the amount of data burned.
     
    l33t_c0w, Feb 21, 2007
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    ^^ i would say the same.

    obviously you can burn 1mb faster then a gig of data, but if you pit 100mb dvd against 100mb cd, i would probably say the cdrw will burn faster.
     
    junknstuff, Feb 21, 2007
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    Notebook - 24x TOP SPEED
    Desktop - 52x TOP SPEED

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Feb 21, 2007
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