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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers(www.techspot.com)

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cholesterol@lemmy.world

6 points

9 months ago

Does the ‘original speed’ mean what the natural playback would have been? So 60 minutes of audio burned by a x60 drive would take one minute?

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MNByChoice@midwest.social

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9 months ago

Yes, but I think there was some overhead in the process that was slower.

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unphazed@lemmy.world

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9 months ago

Memory limitations. Back then RAM was like 512 max

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MNByChoice@midwest.social

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9 months ago

You are correct. However, I mean initialization and finalizing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R Looks like a 52x wrote at 7.8 MB/s. Things have changed.

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