On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:04:17PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > Sure, I could Google, but I don't trust "them" as much as I do you. I'm > about to write an iso file to a double layer Dvd. I'd like to hear just > what is a good burn speed. The box sez no more than 8X. Well, what would > be better? 1X? 2X? 4X? I'd rather it not take the weekend to burn 7.4 > gigs. But, these darn disks are expensive. I really don't want to make a > $4 coaster. What say you?? Any caveats? Thanks, Ric It won't take that long, regardless of the speed you choose. Using the DVD R/RW and media shown below, I burn a double-layer DVD in ~25 minutes. Drive: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B GA04 Removable CD-ROM Blanks: Verbatim DVD+R DL DVD The most useful piece of information is reported by cdrecord: # cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -prcap ... Number of supported write speeds: 1 Write speed # 0: 2770 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 15x, DVD 2x) So the write speed is 2x. Kurt -- Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. -- Thomas Jefferson
