Re: How to burn DVD to multiple drives?
Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > If you start those in parallel, the system will just be reading the
> > second and later copies straight from the buffer cache; no I/O
> > involved, surely...?
>
> That's the hope. But what if one burner takes 10 seconds longer to
> initialise? How big's the drive read cache? I can't test lacking
> multiple burners, but having only one reader process seems safer. Worth
> a try though of course.
Asuming you have a 16x DVD writer (25 MB/s), I would also asume that
you have no less than 1 GB if RAM. 10 seconds is just 250 MB......
A decent OS should cache that for you if there is 1 GB of RAM.
Jörg
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