From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 22:07:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0BB716A41F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:07:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A14043D53 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:07:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBEM76x4008303; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:07:07 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:07:25 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051214171014.GB37495@thought.org> <7088318B-3141-44E6-9F50-CB51F6CAE501@mac.com> <20051214205736.GH41870@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20051214205736.GH41870@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512141407.26128.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Gary Kline Subject: Re: fquestions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:07:28 -0000 On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:57 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > Not to hijack my own thread, but will this NEC DVD burner > work: > > It is the NEC 3550 we also have the LiteON 1693 same price. > > It isn't life/death that I get a "burner", but rather than > getting a CDROM burneer, I thought I'd buy something cutting > edge for a change! > > gary' > > PS: The web company is > > eCollegePC.com > > so if anybody onlist has some stormwarnings, now's the > time for Bail-Out advice! I have 2 16x, dual layer, DVD burners. A Sony and a LiteOn. I couldn't find the boxes, and I'm not going to pull them out to look :). The Sony seems to want to burn CDs at 42x and the LiteOn, day in and day out, burns at 48x. The LiteOn is on a 2800+ XP AMD. I have 16x media for the DVD burner but have only used 8x so far on the Sony. It is on a 1600+ XP. That translates into 11MB/sec. When I backed up ~4GB of digital photos from my Canon Digital Rebel, I needed around 10 minutes. It was much faster than I expected and I didn't time the operation. This is also only under Windows XP. The systems boot 6-stable and XP-Pro but the files I need to burn only exist on XP. I don't expect a problem from either on the FreeBSD side. I just happen to like Nero and the choices on FreeBSD are quite different. I make the system fit the project and not force the project onto a system. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html