How Long Does it take to burn to dvd

[scsp6]

Hi,
Yes If I have a full 4.5 gig dvd completely full burning at 2 x or 4 x how long would it take to finish pretty straightforward question response would be much appreciated.

[donpedro]

1x ~ 60min
2x ~ 30min
4x ~ 15min

[jsnkc]

I'm wondering how you are getting 4.5GB on one DVD-R! That is some serious overburning!

[bugster]

I'm wondering how you are getting 4.5GB on one DVD-R! That is some serious overburning!

It depends on how big you think a gig is!

If 1 Gig = 1024 Mbytes and 1Meg = 1024 Kbytes etc, a DVD holds 4.3 Gigs

If 1 Gig = 1000 Mbytes and 1 Meg = 1000 Kbytes etc a DVD holds 4.7 Gig.

Unfortunatley, the drive manufacturers always use the 2nd of those calculations.

[jsnkc]

Well, in the real computer world 1 Gig = 1024 Mbytes.

[bugster]

Well, in the real computer world 1 Gig = 1024 Mbytes.

So Hard disk drive and optical disk drive manufacturers don't live in the real computer world! It's funny, I had the obviously incorrect comprehension that these manufacturers knew a little about computers, silly me

[jsnkc]

IT's Ok, we won't make fun of you.

[bugster]

IT's Ok, we won't make fun of you.

Thats very gracious of you.

BTW what is this 'real computer world' you speak of, as you obviously know so much about the subject.

[flaninacupboard]

I assume by 4.5 gigs he means 4500 megabytes, so in -his- world a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes but a gigabyte is 1000 megabytes! weird.

[mrbass]

DVD-R takes 3 mins longer due to it having to open session for 90secs and close session takes about 90secs or so.

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdburn/

Blank DVD-R 4,489MB 4,706,074,624 bytes or 4.383GB
Blank DVD+R 4,483MB 4,700,372,992 bytes or 4.377GB

2X DVD-R burntime 16mins
2.4X DVD+R burntime 22mins
4X DVD-R burntime 31mins

[donpedro]

mrbass, :thumbup:

[rhegedus]

2X DVD-R burntime 16mins
2.4X DVD+R burntime 22mins
4X DVD-R burntime 31mins

Erm.....2X and 4X should be swapped.

Regards,

Rob