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Understand the Hardware
A typical DVD Burner will burn DVD+/-R disks at 8x, DVD+/-RW disks at 4x and CD-R/RW at 40x and 24x respectively. Note the difference between the speed of the burner and the speed of the DVD blank. The speed of the burner is the maximum speed at which it will transfer data to the Blank and the Blank DVD speed is the maximum at which the Blank will receive the data. Before you buy a burner check with the supplier that your system has sufficient grunt to run it effectively. (The minimum system requirements are usually shown on the DVD's packaging.)
Formatted DVDs
One of the great features of a DVD RW either + or – is that they can be formatted with a special program which allows them to be used like a giant floppy – drag on and off, copy to and delete at will without going through the burning process. With the burning program “Nero” the formatting program is “InCD”. This is marvellous as you have over 4 Gigs for backup or whatever. Other burning programs provide similar formatting.
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