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Technology Stocks : CD-R/RW and DVD Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Devil Dog who wrote (13)	10/5/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 40

Using normal CD burning software with burn-once and finalize (Non-packet writing) you can fit about 650MB of data onto a CD. Other people try what's called "overburn" and get up to 680MB on one CD. All it does is use some physical space on the CD that sometimes cannot be reached by the laser. But not all CD-RW drives can do this. If you want to multisession (write more than once without erasing anything), you have to allow for about 23 MB of space lost initially, and 13MB for each subsequent burn (not including the actual data). If you want basically have a big drag and drop floppy using CD-RW, you only have about 500MB to work with using UDF "Packet Writing" format. But it is a lot more cost-efficient than superfloppy drives like Zip or LS-120.