Posted by Bob on 08/28/05 14:53

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 07:23:45 +0100, Paul Hyett
<pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:

>But why would writing speed be slower on +RW's than +R's?

The process of recording to a re-writable optical disc is different
from writing to a write-once disc. The dyes are much different.

This is also true of CDs.

My NEC 3540 DVD drive is capable of writing DVD -R at 16X, whereas it
is much slower for DVD -RW.

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