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Faster Bragging - Lockergnome Tech Specialist

Postby Spock » Wed 2005 Mar 02 1:36

ref: Lockergnome Tech Specialist < mailto:subscriptions@lockergnome.com > Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Optical recording just keeps on getting faster, and as far as CDs go, the difference between 24x and 32x isn't worth getting all that excited about, in my opinion, given that it means about fifty seconds of saved time when burning a 700MB CD. However, DVD speeds are a different story at this point. When you have 4.7GB of data to cook, the difference between 4x and 8x is over seven minutes.
In case you're wondering, the 1x data rate for CDs is 150KB/sec, while a 1x DVD moves at 1.35MB/sec. Just do the math to see how much time you're saving by going with a faster drive, and decide whether the extra money is really worth the seconds or minutes saved on each write operation, but also factor in how much you actually write data to optical media. Saving one minute twice per month hardly seems worth spending another $100 on a drive, does it?

Just some food for thought, which was initiated by a rather insulting response when I was asked how fast the CD- RW drive in my notebook is rated. The fact that a 15 year old has a drive that's twice as fast in his PC at home means nothing to me. Of course this came up while I was burning a CD away from my own home, which Mr. Speed Freak can't do with his home PC. Does the hardware do what you need and offer a reasonable price for those functions? I'll stick to that for my benchmark, rather than buying for bragging rights. I really get a kick out of people that spend money on bragging rights and then get huffy with me for questioning why theirs is better than mine. The fastest CPU I have is a P4 2.2GHz, and to be perfectly honest, I'd have a difficult time justifying anything faster, and I'm sure you have a pretty good idea of how much I use my hardware.

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