"mjs" <no@thanks.com> wrote in message
news:u48cVO7oIHA.2636@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I've got relatively current gear (Seagate & WD drives, and a Plextor DVDR
> drive) but I'm finding the 90 minutes it takes to dump the content of a
> DVD onto my HD unnecessarily excessive. Is it supposed to take that long
> to copy 3-4 gigs worth of raw data to a HD? The target drive isn't even
> the one Windows is installed on, which is supposed to help speed-wise.
>
> What could be causing this, and how could I tweak WinXP (fully patched)
> into speeding this up? I've got 4GB of ram (even though 2 are being wasted
> most of the time).
>

The one thing you should note is that the quoted read speed of the DVD drive
only applies to pre-mastered disks. It is often slower for DVD-R discs and
for many drives is actually slower than the write speed.