what transfers data faster dvd or usb?
USB 2.0 is much faster than the DVD data rate. DVD 1x (slowest) write speed is 1.39MB/s. DVD 24x (fastest) write speed is 33.24MB/s. USB 2.0 write speed is up to 35MB/s. A 24x DVD max is about 32MB/s while USB2 max is about 60MB/s.