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Optical Drive Speeds
Doing math and converting kB to Mb and so on gives me a headache, and I can't be particularly certain that I'm doing it right. Therefore, these are the speeds in binary bytes, as in, this is what I use in dvd_info and bluray_info when deciding how much memory to allocate.
You can do the conversion on your own to another format, because I can't be certain of my own work.
DVDS
Drive Speed | kiloBytes (kB) | megaBytes (mB) | Source | Notation |
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8x | 11080 | 11.08 | cdrecord | 1000 |
1x | 1385 | 1.385 | math | 1000 |