My new DVD burner
I picked up a nice little internal HP DVD burner (dvd1080i) from BestBuy a few days ago. I’ve only made two discs and so far, this little sucker rocks!
I made a double layer disc for a recent backup file I had. The file was a 7.2G tarball on my linux machine. I didn’t have enough storage on my windoze machine to copy the thing over first, so I burned it straight from my shared samba drive to the DVD. I didn’t touch either computer for the entire process. It took over an hour to burn both layers, and then another hour to verify. I turned off the verify flag after that.
The disc works great! I took it to my roommate’s computer and his drive read it fine. I think this disc is a re-writable, but I’m not sure yet because it’s a double layer. I’ll update after more experimentation.
Yesterday I made a re-writable disc with a 2.4G movie file on it. I took it to work and it plays great. So far, so good!
This drive seems to do everything! I can burn virtually any format, even LightScribe, which I haven’t tried yet, but I’ll get to it this week some time. And the drive was cheap; the media cost more than the drive! And I only got a few double-layer discs, a few re-writable discs, and a few LightScribe discs.
More to come.
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