| DVD Burners are the best burnable media right | | | | burners have finally surpassed CD burners in |
| now, not only for their storage size, but for | | | | speed, and only have potential to get faster. |
| their speed. DVD's hold approximately 4.7 | | | | They are currently up to 16x for some media, |
| Gigabytes of information (that's 4.7 billion | | | | so you can do the math.DVD burners right now |
| bytes if you're curious) which is about six | | | | are usually around 16x4x16x, the left number |
| times the information a CD can hold. There | | | | being how fast it writes to a writable (DVD+R |
| are also double sided DVD's which can hold | | | | or DVD-R etc), the center number being how |
| twice as much.DVD's also read and burn at a | | | | fast it writes to a re-writable (DVD+RW or |
| rate of around 1352 KBs (kilobytes per | | | | DVD-RW), and the number on the right being |
| second), while CD's burn at a default rate of | | | | how fast it can read a DVD.Most DVD Burners |
| 150 KBs, that's a little over 9 times | | | | can also burn regular CD's, making them |
| faster.The way you get your actual speed is | | | | extremely cost effective and versatile, and |
| by multiplying the default rate by the number | | | | saving room for other devices you might need, |
| in front of the X. (example: with a 8x dvd | | | | especially if the number of slots you have |
| burner, 8 times 1352 = 10816 Kbs, and on a | | | | available is limited. |
| 52x cd burner, 52 times 150 = 7800) DVD | | | | |