Re: sarge first i386 CD musings
In article <3F21851E.70009@fsn.hu> bra@fsn.hu writes:
>Just a quick question: in Hungary it is impossible to buy a 74 minutes
>writable CD (650 MB) even in CD-RW version. The "default" is now 700
>MB/80 min. with strange capacities emerging (like the 1 GB CD-R, I don't
>know how well can one store data on them, also I wouldn't place my life
>on a CD which were written at 52X speed, but that's another story).
>
>So why should a CD be under 650 MB these days?
In the US (or at least southern california) 650 MB cd-r's are about
half the price and more widly available than 700 MB ones. (About
$10/100 vs $20/100.) I don't remember seeing 700 MB cd-rw's, but
havn't looked for them. I did see the 990 MB cd-r's at something like
$40/100.
Not all CD readers/players can handle disks larger than 650 MB. (And
some cd-r's have more problems than others, like the black ones.)
While for Knoppix I think it makes sence to use 700 MB cd's, I don't
think it does for Debian. (Going from 7 CDs to 6?)
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