CDs hold slightly under 700MB of data
Rewritable discs are rated for up to 1000 rewrites. Devices that encode data to higher-capacity DVD discs are called DVD burners. The burning process takes anywhere between a few minutes and half an hour, depending on the speed of your CD burner. CDs hold slightly under 700MB of data, which works out to about 11 hours of compressed music or a few hours of medium-quality video. CD burners arguably helped kickstart the era of usb cd writer music and gaming piracy, as one of the first applications was cheaply copying music and game CDs. Though initially sold for hundreds of dollars when they were introduced in the mid-90s, used models can now be found on eBay for around US$10.