Time to read DVD?

I have been using hard drives as a backup for my data and I would like
to know about using DVD as a backup store instead.

How long would it take a fairly cheap DVD read-writer drive to read the
full 4.7 GB of data from a DVD+R disc?

Depends on the system. I had a data DVD handy which contains a 3.4 GB zip
file, and gave it a try. It took me 8 minutes and 5 seconds to copy it to a
hard drive. So you can extrapolate from that.

"Jaxx" <nonono@co.co.co> wrote in message
news:Xns9938D6699B44B1F3E91@127.0.0.1...
>I have been using hard drives as a backup for my data and I would like
> to know about using DVD as a backup store instead.
>
> How long would it take a fairly cheap DVD read-writer drive to read the
> full 4.7 GB of data from a DVD+R disc?

On Tue, 22 May 2007 21:04:39 +0100, Jaxx <nonono@co.co.co> wrote:

>How long would it take a fairly cheap DVD read-writer drive to read the
>full 4.7 GB of data from a DVD+R disc?

Easily under 10 minutes with current drives, faster if you use plain
DVD-ROM for reading and leave the DVD burning for writing only.

A 16x DVD-ROM could in theory do entire dual layer 9GB in under 10
minutes but it mostly depends on your PC.