[ILUG] OT: PCI\e DVD controller card?

[Josh Glover]

2009/1/20 Frank Duignan <frank.duignan at gmail.com>:

> External USB Might be a bit slow but would be fairly cheap and is readily
> available.

I doubt the speed of the USB bus would be the bottleneck when writing
a DVD. The fastest internal drive I could find on NewEgg only writes
at 22X (the fastest external is 20X for some flavours of DVD media),
which, according to Wikipedia,[1] would be about 29 MB/s. This is
about half of the maximum speed of USB 2.0, which is 480 Mbit/s[2], or
60 MB/s.

Cheers,
Josh

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_writer#Technical_information
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#USB_2.0