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Date:      Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:50:44 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: hw for dvd writing
Message-ID:  <72D681DA-D1D5-4128-A85D-99059A818DA6@HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050904202627.44227.qmail@web31809.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sep 4, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Paulo Roberto wrote:

> Would you guys put and old Celeron (running Freebsd 5.3) 266Mhz with
> 64MB for dvd writing?
>
> I have this old machine and I am thinking about buying an internal DVD
> writer for it, since it is cheaper than buying and external unit  
> for my
> laptop.

Do you have a large enough HD to play with DVD images?

How fast can it dd a big file to /dev/null? You'll need 1.4 MB/sec  
for each "x" your DVD runs.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.




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