Question about CD Burning

[MrChupon]

I'm working on a project where I need to store lots of little files on a CD. I understand that you can write to a CDR multiple times until it is full.

My question is how much space do I waste if I am writing only a couple small files per burn? If I burn 10 250KB files intially, I'd imagine in reality it takes up more than 2.5 megs on the CDR.

I'm just curious to know what the smallest burn you can do is, I so I can wait until I have an appropriate number of files to burn without wasting too much CD space doing multiple small burns.

Thanks

-MrC

 

[Arcanedeath]

You may just want to use a CD-RW and some type of packet writing software ex: Nero's InCD. It might simplify things, also I'm not sure how much space the lead in and lead out take but I belive it varries depending on what software and burner you are using. Hope this helps...

 

[MrChupon]

Thanks, I had considered that, I just didn't want to go get a CD-RW. I think i'll kill a CD-R burning a 10KB file to it a few times just to find out. If the space wasted is over 16 megs or so, I don't think its worth my trouble.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Good Idea to test it out =) sadly I didn't think of that lol