| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 16 Mar 2001 at 08:17:42 |
| Subject: | Re: maste iso |
mark krawczuk said,
> how come it takes only 20 minutes to write a 650 meg image to hd , and it
> takes over 2 hours to copy the same cd normally to hd?
In the former case you're reading a single file from hard drive. In the
latter you're reading a filesystem, which is slower, from a CDROM, which
is also slower.
Most CDROM drives have slow access times, some spend more time moving
between files than copying the files themselves.
Neil
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