Whats your CD-burner's max burning speed?

[Zero]

Well it seems to me that I just got myself a CD-burner and it burns at 40x.



Whats yours?

 

[Shannon]

how do you find out?

 

[Shannon]

on the cd burner itself it's got 4x4x32 so would that make it 32x

 

[risingson77]

32x is your max read speed eddy. The format for CD-RW drive speed is write x rewrite x read. So my ancient USB CD-RW is 4 x 2 x 24 (something like that). Although it can theoretically write at 4x speed, I can't use it (buffer underruns).

Oh well. it's good for all the burning I do.

 

[Shannon]

thanks risingson

there you goo ZeroCool85, mine's 32x

 

[LoudMusic]

eddy - Your's is 4x.

risingson - you get those errors because the USB protocal can't send data to the drive as fast as the drive can write it, so it gets an error. Internal IDE/ATAPI is the way to go.

I've got a 12x Sony. What brand is your 40x Zero? And where do you plan on finding blank 40x CD-Rs?

~LoudMusic

 

[Shannon]

it's 4x then. who even cares, at least it gets the job done.

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by eddy_2790
it's 4x then. who even cares, at least it gets the job done.

Pretty much. How often do you use it?

~LoudMusic

 

[Shannon]

quite a bit actually. burn music cds and games. my friend is supposed to be lending me Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear for me to burn.

 

[Pako]

24x, rips and reads at 40x, CDRW at 10x

TDK Veloc.....

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Mine's an 8x4x24 Yamaha SCSI drive, which is nice. Been very reliable and tends to get the job done.

 

[risingson77]

Originally posted by LoudMusic
risingson - you get those errors because the USB protocal can't send data to the drive as fast as the drive can write it, so it gets an error. Internal IDE/ATAPI is the way to go.~LoudMusic

Yeah, that's more or less what I figured. USB ports top out at 400 Kbps, and 4x would be 600 kbps...so....Much like eddy, the drive is more than sufficient for my burning needs, so I'll just ride it 'til it dies and get an internal one (a DVD-RW will probably be super-cheap by then :thumbsup: ).

Side note: The best computer CD-Rs I have found are Ricoh Platinums. It's the only CD-R my car stereo will read, so there must be something to it.

 

[Solid Fro]

24x10x40 Samsung IDE CD-RW.

haven't had a problem with it yet.

 

[NocturnalPS]

Dear gosh i need a new burner. I got a crapy 4x, 2x rewrite.

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by risingson77


Yeah, that's more or less what I figured. USB ports top out at 400 Kbps, and 4x would be 600 kbps...so....Much like eddy, the drive is more than sufficient for my burning needs, so I'll just ride it 'til it dies and get an internal one (a DVD-RW will probably be super-cheap by then :thumbsup: ).

Side note: The best computer CD-Rs I have found are Ricoh Platinums. It's the only CD-R my car stereo will read, so there must be something to it.

 

[Tom M]

Originally posted by risingson77


Yeah, that's more or less what I figured. USB ports top out at 400 Kbps, and 4x would be 600 kbps...so....Much like eddy, the drive is more than sufficient for my burning needs, so I'll just ride it 'til it dies and get an internal one (a DVD-RW will probably be super-cheap by then :thumbsup: ).

Side note: The best computer CD-Rs I have found are Ricoh Platinums. It's the only CD-R my car stereo will read, so there must be something to it.

High Reflectivity is the key. Any Disc with similar coloring should work as well. (Not all, but most)

Btw, USB tops out at 12 Megabits/sec. (And USB 2.0 will be 480 Mb/Sec )

Oh, and I'm running a 16x Yamaha as of this moment (literally, I'm burning as I type ) But in a few hours I'm heading off to a PC show near my house to get the 40x Plextor. Or if DVD-R's are a decent price I'll get one of those instead.

 

[Pako]

Originally posted by Tom McDonnell


.............But in a few hours I'm heading off to a PC show near my house to get the 40x Plextor. Or if DVD-R's are a decent price I'll get one of those instead.

Well? So what happened? Whatcha get?

 

[risingson77]

Originally posted by Tom McDonnell


High Reflectivity is the key. Any Disc with similar coloring should work as well. (Not all, but most)

Btw, USB tops out at 12 Megabits/sec. (And USB 2.0 will be 480 Mb/Sec )

Oh, and I'm running a 16x Yamaha as of this moment (literally, I'm burning as I type ) But in a few hours I'm heading off to a PC show near my house to get the 40x Plextor. Or if DVD-R's are a decent price I'll get one of those instead.

Really! Hm, I wonder where I got 400 kbps from. Well, it must just be my crappy CD burner.

I dunno if color comes into play, but the Ricoh Plats are almost silver...

 

[Tom M]

Originally posted by risingson77


Really! Hm, I wonder where I got 400 kbps from. Well, it must just be my crappy CD burner.

I dunno if color comes into play, but the Ricoh Plats are almost silver...

Could be... I know that when I copy Music to my Xbox I have to use Memorex (I always use Memorex) High speed discs. The 4x CDR-W's don't get recognized, and there is a color difference. (The High Speed CDRW's being bright silver)

 

[Zero]

40x12x40

 

[Concept]

I am not sure what the speed of mine is. I am at my friends house right now. I do however know that this morning I burnt a 18 song CD with each song like 3-5 minutes long and it burned it in 6 minutes.

 

[Tom M]

Originally posted by Pako


Well? So what happened? Whatcha get?

I got the 40x Plextor this morning (1 day late, ah well..) I looked at the DVDRW's, but I was not thrilled with the Brand names they had available. (Pioneer, and a Generic OEM brand) They were running $349+ for a 2.4x Writer, but I didn't see any faster. I guess I'll just have to wait a little while longer.
I also picked up a 450watt power supply because the power supply I had just wasn't cutting the mustard. (Especially since I plan to run 3 Cdroms in this PC )

 

[risingson77]

Is there an easy way to tell if your power supply isn't cutting it?

 

[Tom M]

Originally posted by risingson77
Is there an easy way to tell if your power supply isn't cutting it?

Various things will tell you. Some Motherboards have diagnostic programs that will tell you if you have enough power being supplied, some Motheboards will let you see it directly from the bios.
In my case, I could hear the interruption in power by the clicking of the Power supply (Like a fuse Switching over.) It's not a concern that most people with a 250-300 watt power supply should worry about, it's just that I'm running so many different components (3 Hard Drives, 2 (now 3) CDroms, Extra Cooling, Geforce 3 (Uses quite a bit), and the rest of the gang.)
Most PC crashing (Pops off as if you hit the reset button) is due to incompatible drivers or IRQ conflicts (The source of so many problems in life)

 

[risingson77]

Thanks...I don't think my PC is running short on power. 1 HDD, 1 DVD-ROM, that's it! It just crashes a lot.

 

[Jordan]

Read Speeds:

32X CD-R
20X CD-RW
8X DVD

Write Speeds:

12X CD-R
10X CD-RW
2.4X DVD-RW

 

[space]

16x10x40 here

 

[Klostrophobic]

4x.

 

[Dudebusta]

Mines a 24x10x40 so its 24 speed write, 10 speed re-write and 40 speed read.

 

[Zero]

Originally posted by Tom McDonnell


I got the 40x Plextor

Thats the one I have