[aclug-L] Re: Garage Sale (was: Re: Case Modes?)

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Hall
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> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:54:21AM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> >
> > Maybe $3.50 per disk, with $10 for the whole set of 3.
> > If it gets more than 3 disks then possibly $12 for the set of 4.
> >
> > The distribution at Comp-USA is 59.95 (I think) so it will be much less
> > than the distro. I could print some labels ahead of time for the CDs so
> > they would look a little more professional.
> >
> > Time involved is getting to be very little as well,  5 - 10 minutes per
> > CD including burning and applying label. Maybe less with the 32X CDRs
> > now available. (it takes me about 5 min to burn 640mb at 16X)
>
> The time involved doesn't really involve the burn time.  It
> requires just as
> much human intervention time to burn on a 2x CD-R as it does on a
> 16x CD-R.
> I don't think the cost of the faster media is usually worth it
> for this sort
> of thing.

What do you mean?  Most blanks you buy this day are rated 12x or greater. Of
course past about 20x the law of diminishing returns starts to really kick
in. There is a certain amount of time required for dirctory creation and
finalization that seems not to change much with greater write speed.
Besides, I don't think human intervention time is the only thing to look at.
If you are buring any quantity of disks, the difference between 2x and 20x
is HUGE.


--dwh

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