How much can the 1GB discs hold?

[frigate]

I purchased an hi-md player, and I am looking at discs, how can I tell how much data the diffrent non 1gb discs hold?

Like the 80 minutes, 74 minutes etc?

Look at this page for instance, http://www.minidisco.com/Digital-Media/80-Minute-MiniDiscs

I know some can hold 300mb or so, and others only 160, how do I tell em apart?

Edited June 26, 2007 by frigate

[THIS SUCKS]

the 80 min discs hold 300mb when formatted in hi md mode. get those if you cant get the 1 gig discs.

[raintheory]

the ~160mb is just a figure stating how much audio (atrac) "data" the old (not Hi-MD formatted) discs held. When you format one of these same discs as Hi-MD it increases that to ~300mb or so.

You have to format as Hi-MD to use the disc as actual data storage anyway, so even if it says 160 it'll be closer to 300mb when you actually store anything on them.

[frigate]

Alright thanks.

[Strungup]

Alright thanks.

I basically only use Regular MD's in HiMD mode on an 80 minute MD it breaks down to this.

#1 PCM = ... not very long

#2 HiMD SP = 2 and a half hours or so

#3 HiMD LP = about 9 hours and 15 minutes

First put the RH1 "Disc Mode" to HiMD , then insert a blank , hit the menu button go to "Edit-> format-> Format ok?->enter"

That MD will be in HiMD mode

You can just start recording if the RH1 is in HiMD mode but I have had a couple discs act funny , went back and formatted them in Hi and they worked fine aftewards

[greenmachine]

http://minidisc.org/hi-md_faq.html#_q93

The 305 MB figure is for a reformatted 80 min MD, a reformatted 74 min MD will hold about 7-8 % less. You can re-format any standard MD to Hi-MD mode.

Edited June 27, 2007 by greenmachine