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