Posted by Alix on 01/01/06 15:36

On Thu 29 Dec 2005 22:44:21, <marks542004@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> In my opinion the data is safer on DVD than on the hard drive.
>
> If your disks are rated at 8x burn I would burn at 4x since I
> find it gives better results.
>
> DVD single layer is about 4.7 Gb max. So your 100 GB for 25 is
> straight arithmetic. You will lose some in directory stuctures
> burning a data disc.
>
> Make sure you do a read after write check to ensure the data is
> correctly written to disk.
>


How long would it take take to burn at 4X (which I suspect is the max
speed during the burn rather than the average speed) and to do a
check to verify the data is burnt correctly?

(As you correctly say later in this thread, I am not referring to
rewritable discs.)

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