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Title: DVD Burning Questions!
Post by: Rich. on April 23, 2004, 06:59:19 PM

Thinking about buying a cheap dvd burner. One question:

I have limited hardrive space (10 gb) and was wondering when I was making a dvd copy (clone) would I be able to do this with just one drive? Would it do it as in the same way as if you were "cloning" a cd; by temporarly storing it on the hardrive then buring to dvd?

Cheers!

Title: Re:DVD Burning Questions!
Post by: leegeddy on April 23, 2004, 07:10:57 PM

Quote from: rich_incubus on April 23, 2004, 06:59:19 PM

Thinking about buying a cheap dvd burner. One question:

I have limited hardrive space (10 gb) and was wondering when I was making a dvd copy (clone) would I be able to do this with just one drive? Would it do it as in the same way as if you were "cloning" a cd; by temporarly storing it on the hardrive then buring to dvd?

Cheers!

yes. you'll need almost 5gb of free hdd space for the dvd files.

marc

Title: Re:DVD Burning Questions!
Post by: Rich. on April 23, 2004, 07:47:59 PM

Ok, thanks for that!

Title: Re:DVD Burning Questions!
Post by: Sean Gallemore on April 24, 2004, 12:12:56 AM

yep

Title: Re:DVD Burning Questions!
Post by: AT853rxwh on April 25, 2004, 12:38:51 AM

You would prolly have a prob even with 5gb free if it is a 10gb drive.  5400rpm drives work ok for video, but 7200rpm work better.  It all depends on the speed that you are trying to burn at.  

If you have a 4200, I doubt you would be able to burn at anything higher than 2x (if that)

Title: Re:DVD Burning Questions!
Post by: Sean Gallemore on April 25, 2004, 04:09:08 AM

hmmm, how would I check the rpm on my current drive?