Roughly, what sort of speed are my cd/DVD drives?
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Got a DVD reader and a CD-rewriter and am curious as to how fast they are and whether either is worth upgrading.
They came as standard on my Packard Bell 1.5GHz P4 (256mb ram, 64 mb graphics, 40GB hdd) which I bought about 2 years ago. What was the typical speed for these devices back then? Will a new DVD or CD writer really be much faster for copying stuff to my pc (backups of my own cds/dvds etc.) which currently takes a while.
BTW - don't want to spend much cash, I'll only upgrade if it's cheap to do so
They came as standard on my Packard Bell 1.5GHz P4 (256mb ram, 64 mb graphics, 40GB hdd) which I bought about 2 years ago. What was the typical speed for these devices back then? Will a new DVD or CD writer really be much faster for copying stuff to my pc (backups of my own cds/dvds etc.) which currently takes a while.
BTW - don't want to spend much cash, I'll only upgrade if it's cheap to do so
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From: diskdepot
The max read speed of a DVD-rom is 16x
Depending what you're trying to copy from a DVD to a HDD greatly influences the transfer rate.
If it's data, you should get a full 16x read.
If it's audio/video and you need a 'special application' to transfer the data, you'll probably get about a 4-6x transfer rate (20mins for a full disk)
Depending what you're trying to copy from a DVD to a HDD greatly influences the transfer rate.
If it's data, you should get a full 16x read.
If it's audio/video and you need a 'special application' to transfer the data, you'll probably get about a 4-6x transfer rate (20mins for a full disk)
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