[ale] OT: CD Burners

[David Corbin]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 19:14, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 December 2003 03:47 pm, David Corbin wrote:
> > Any reason not get a USB CD Burner (and get EIDE instead).  This is for a
> > non-linux user that needs to do occaisional data backup.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> No biggie if you have USB 2.0 ports/burner.  If not, burning on a USB 1.x
> port can take a long time.  I think you will max out at 2X, maybe 4x if you
> have good hardware.  Still 600KB/s Max.
>
>

That triggers the next question, how can you tell what version of USB a (Dell) 
system supports.

> Calvin...
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