DVD Burning speed

[surreal]

Hi,

how quickly should a 16x DVD burn a full disc? I've just bought the Samsung SATA SH-S203B burner, and using Deep Burner with 16x rated discs at full speed its taking 14 minutes. Is that about right, cos I thought it would have been a bit quicker.

I've had a lot of problems with IDE drives in the past, a Pioneer 109 taking 45 minutes to burn a disc but I think that was down to having a StarForce infection - this is a clean install of windows XP tho, so I'm wondering if I'm missing a trick.

Its an old box, Asus A7N8X board and Athlon 2800XP cpu.

cheers

 

[Fothsn]

Well some sort of rough guide my sata 20X LiteOn drive using 8X disks burning at 8X takes just under 5mins, that’s about 3Gb of data burnt on DVD-R. Have you noticed the buffer jumping up and down while burning also what software are you using?

 

[jbloggs]

using Deep Burner with 16x rated discs at full speed its taking 14 minutes

This is too long, burning a full s/layer DVD disc (ie 4482MB) at 16x, should take about 5min 45 sec to 6 mins, at 8x about 8min to 8min 30 secs.

There is something not right with your setup, try another burning software, like Final Burner (free) or InfraRecorder in the CD/DVD Burning/Mounting/Recovery section.

 

[surreal]

I figured as much, which is why I switched to a SATA burner. For the short time I had Ubuntu installed the 109 burned the discs a full speed, it was great, but XP just doesn't want to know. Its odd...

EDIT: I've just downloaded Infrarecorder and when looking at the device properties its only registering the DVD write speed as 6x... Is this likely to be a m/b bios thing? Its really frustrating as I've never been able to get good speeds from any burner I've had for the past few years...

 

[jbloggs]

Is this likely to be a m/b bios thing?

I wouldn't think so, it is probably coming from an XP issue.

1) Go into Device Manager, and find the optical device under "DVD/CD-Rom drives", right click and choose UNinstall, OK etc, now reboot, this will reinstall the drivers for it, when Desktop appears again, see how it is now.

2) Go into Services, Stop and Disable->"IMAPI CD-Burning COM" Service.

3) Try the Samsung SATA SH-S203B burner in another computer, if it works in that, it will out a problem with it.

4) Check your aspi layer, ASPI 4.60 is recommended, see Here

5) Try putting it on a single, seperate power cord.

6) If none of the above helps, have a look Here

 

[surreal]

Thanks for the info, I'll give that lot a go and see if it helps - its just odd that its been such a long-running problem through multiple XP re-installs.

Much appreciated