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document updated 12 years ago, on Jan 3, 2012

80mm CD/DVD media is more expensive, but they make it easier to daily-carry around a small selection of your most important boot utilties, in a smaller form factor.

Form factor Capacity
80mm circular CDR 210 MB
business card CD 30-100 MB1
80mm circular DVD 1.4 GB single-sided
2.8 GB double-sided
business card DVD 330-620 MB1
80mm circular Blu-ray 7.5 GB

1. capacity depends on the short-axis length, which isn't standardized, and can vary

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