[Pc_Support] AMD 64 DVD / Debian or Suse

[Damien McKenna]

David Simmons wrote:

>>"DVDs" ;-)  Dual layer is a pretty expensive technology today, and quite slow too.
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>I beg to differ with you on this....the media might still be expensive
>(about $3 per disk).....but the Dual Layer drives - while being fairly
>price competitive with standard writable DVD drives, because they are
>fairly 'new' usually come in the QUICKER speeds 8x+
>  
>
I'm talking about the media and technology as a whole.  If you have to 
pay extra for them over a non-DL drive *and* the media is substantially 
more expensive (you can get 100 DVD-R discs for $50 = $0.50 each vs $3 
for DL) then it doesn't make it worth it.

Then again, I didn't realize they'd gotten to 8x on DL yet.

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