How long does it take to burn a 16X DVD?
A full 4.7GB DVD burn takes 5-8 minutes. A fast drive will be in the mid-5 minute range, and a slower drive in the 7-8min range.
Obviously there are many factors including the speed of the computer, maker of the DVD burner, the DVD-R or DVD+R media being used, single vs. dual-layer and the software that is doing the burning.
I was looking for some approximate times that a person could expect on a reasonable set hardware using a standard single-layer DVD disc (stuff you can buy in a grocery store these days). Should a full 4.7GB disc in a 16X burner take an hour a minute?
Size: A single layer DVD is 4.7GB, or 4.38Gigs of data from you hard drive.
Speed: The DVD original 1X transfer rate is 1.385MB per second
A 1X DVD can be burned in about 60 minutes. Theoretically a 16X DVD burner would tear through a DVD in 3:32 minutes. In real-world testing, times are in the 5:00-8:00 range. Check out this site that test various 16X DVD burners.
1X DVD = 4.7GB/56:33min = 83.1MB/min = 1.385MB/sec
2X DVD = 4.7GB/28:18min = 166.2MB/min = 2.77MB/sec
6X DVD = 4.7GB/9:26min = 498.6MB/min = 8.31MB/sec
8X DVD = 4.7GB/7:04min = 664.8MB/min = 11.08MB/sec
10X DVD = 4.7GB/5:40min = 831MB/min = 13.85MB/sec
12X DVD = 4.7GB/4:43min = 997.2MB/min = 16.62MB/sec
16X DVD = 4.7GB/3:32min = 1329.6MB/min = 22.16MB/sec
Other references:
wikipedia - DVD Technical_information
wikipedia - Gibibyte
Obviously there are many factors including the speed of the computer, maker of the DVD burner, the DVD-R or DVD+R media being used, single vs. dual-layer and the software that is doing the burning.
I was looking for some approximate times that a person could expect on a reasonable set hardware using a standard single-layer DVD disc (stuff you can buy in a grocery store these days). Should a full 4.7GB disc in a 16X burner take an hour a minute?
Size: A single layer DVD is 4.7GB, or 4.38Gigs of data from you hard drive.
Speed: The DVD original 1X transfer rate is 1.385MB per second
A 1X DVD can be burned in about 60 minutes. Theoretically a 16X DVD burner would tear through a DVD in 3:32 minutes. In real-world testing, times are in the 5:00-8:00 range. Check out this site that test various 16X DVD burners.
1X DVD = 4.7GB/56:33min = 83.1MB/min = 1.385MB/sec
2X DVD = 4.7GB/28:18min = 166.2MB/min = 2.77MB/sec
6X DVD = 4.7GB/9:26min = 498.6MB/min = 8.31MB/sec
8X DVD = 4.7GB/7:04min = 664.8MB/min = 11.08MB/sec
10X DVD = 4.7GB/5:40min = 831MB/min = 13.85MB/sec
12X DVD = 4.7GB/4:43min = 997.2MB/min = 16.62MB/sec
16X DVD = 4.7GB/3:32min = 1329.6MB/min = 22.16MB/sec
Other references:
wikipedia - DVD Technical_information
wikipedia - Gibibyte
posted by jdub @ 11/03/2006 03:37:00 PM
1 Comments:
At Friday, November 17, 2006 12:53:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Verbatim first to launch dual-layer with 8x write speed.
The burn takes just 15 minutes to write four hours of video in DVD quality to the Verbatim 8x DVD-R DL, some 10 minutes faster than the previous fastest write speed of 4x media.
http://www.cdr-zone.com/news/verbatim_first_to_launch_dual_layer_with_8x_write_speed.html
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