# Dvd+rw

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-rw/132176>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 14, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-rw/132176 "2002-10-14T02:22:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![rayray5884](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@rayray5884](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayray5884)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-rw/132176/1 "2002-10-14T02:22:21Z")

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So all these new DVD writers are out and I’m thinking about buying one. My question is how fast is a 2.4x DVD writer? I know that in the CD world that the base speed is 150kB/s and the speeds are just multiplied by that. Do DVD’s have the same speed or is their base speed faster? If its really only 150kB/s I’d have to imagine it taking a long time to burn 4.7 GB. Anyone care to enlighten me on all this?? Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-rw/132176/2 "2002-10-14T14:42:03Z")

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Sure, when you buy a drive it says the transfer rate on the box or the manf web site. It’s faster than cd, someone said about 9x but Im not sure, plus there is a lot more data to write. So find your dirve at [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) or [buy.com](http://buy.com) & read the detailed specs

dvd+rw is a format & its expensive. A Cheaper format is dvd-r ,cheaper in that you can use the cheaper -r disks