Cd-rw

TommyVercetti

<div class="IPBDescription">Standards?</div> Hello, I have a 8x CD-RW drive and it takes me about 10 minutes to fill up a 700MB CD. Is this 'normal?' I want to know if my CD-RW is underperforming so I can fix the problem. The write buffer is constantly 100%, whether burning from another CD or from the hard drive. So, can anyone give me a benchmark or something? I'm using Ahead Nero software.

airyK

yeah 10 min for a 700 meg cd isnt bad i think i get worse and i also have a 8x cdrw----52x burners can be boughten for 40 dollars on newegg and sometimes you can get a 20 dollar special at staples...

Zel

make sure your burner software is running at 8x. many programns have throttles and you can set what x-rating it goes at. i ahve a 8x burner but i run it at 4x so that when im using the computer it doesnt empty the write buffer and cause errors on the final disk.

yes, a 52x burner would be quicker, but do you care enough to pay for one? keep in mind the three numbers (52x28x32x) the first is reading speed, the second is writing speed and the third is rewriting, so you want the highest middle number you can get.

pielemuis

Make sure your CD-RWs can handle the speed. If you have CD-RWs that can handle 8x you'll be able to write at 8x (if your writer supports it). For example i only got 2x/4x CD-RWs so Nero won't let me write at 8x eventhough my writer supports it. I believe Nero comes with a diagnostic thingy, check in the "Nero Toolkit" folder.

TommyVercetti

Nope, I usually use the CD-R format, writiing at 8x. I was just checking, because I have a friend who can burn full CDs really fast (5, 10 seconds). Of course, he has a 24x burner. Also, it seems to go pretty fast up until 8% when the read buffer hits 100% and the write buffer is in the 90s. Thanks for the help anyways.

Cereal_KillR

10 seconds???

Codeman

the latest 48x and 52x CD-R drives can burn a full 800mb CD in around 3 minutes, on an athlon XP3000+ system with more RAM than most of you would have (the system described here belongs to a friend of mine and it's his development box/server)

if someone burns a CD in 10 seconds they obviously aren't putting a whole lot of data onto it are they? maybe if someone had an ATA-133 burner I'd be a bit more convinced but i still doubt you'd burn a full CD in 10 seconds.

CD-RW writing is generally slower than CD-R (but if you stuff up you can erase and retry)

-- Codeman

Codeman

the latest 48x and 52x CD-R drives can burn a full 800mb CD in around 3 minutes, on an athlon XP3000+ system with more RAM than most of you would have (the system described here belongs to a friend of mine and it's his development box/server)

if someone burns a CD in 10 seconds they obviously aren't putting a whole lot of data onto it are they? maybe if someone had an ATA-133 burner I'd be a bit more convinced but i still doubt you'd burn a full CD in 10 seconds.

CD-RW writing is generally slower than CD-R (but if you stuff up you can erase and retry)

-- Codeman