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051026 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? |
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> app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools |
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>> (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? |
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>> they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? |
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> Yes it is. 1X on a CD is 172KB/s, 1X on a DVD is 1385KB/s. |
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> So 8X DVD is equivalent to around 64X CD writing. |
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> It still takes longer to write a DVD than a CD on most drives, |
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> but nowhere near seven times as long. |
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Thanks: that's very useful & will be archived for when I get a DVD drive. |
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