Dvd Burner 4x

[xxkazaaliteuserxx]

i planing to buy a dvd burner, cuz it seem to be kinda cheap now. but, 4x, how fast is it, how many mb/sec, how long will it take to burn a full dvdr with 4.7GB, any1 no pleas let me no, tankz alot!!!

[3RA1N1AC]

4x is... i forget how many mb per second, but it's approximately the same speed as 16x or 20x cd burning. it takes about 14 or 15 minutes to burn a full dvd at 4x speed.

[raiserblade2003]

y, if a 16x burn a 750 mb cd in 10 mins, how can a 4x burn a much more detailed 4.7 gig dvd in the same time? the speed is reduce my 4x and the size is beign increase almost 7x

[3RA1N1AC]

16x cd burning should do 700mb in more like 5 minutes.

i was mistaken about the dvd vs cd speed comparison though-- 4x dvd is 5.5mb/sec, which is comparable to 36x to 40x cd speed. so, my error. maybe that clears up the misunderstanding, if there is any.

nevertheless, 4x dvd burning does a full disc in about 15 minutes, and 8x dvd should be more like 7 or 8 minutes.

[DWk]

really? hmmmm i thought 4x was the same for cd-rw and dvd-rw..... omg plz explain a little more now u got me interested on buying a dvd burner....

[Evil Gemini]

NM

[DWk]

cmon now......are the burning speeds different for real? what is the actual rate?

[lynx]

Standard cd speed is 150KB/sec, so 40x cd speed is 6000KB/sec or 6MB/sec. This is about the average speed when burning a full cd at 52x.

I think standard dvd speed is 1440KB/sec so 4x dvd speed is 5760KB/sec or 5.76MB/sec. This speed is supposed to be maintained over the full burn.

As you can see, the data rates are about the same.

[DWk]

so dvd speed is approx 10x the cd speed?

[lynx]

Of course, that's why it holds almost 10 times as much data on each layer.