DVD/cache/Hardrive trouble?

wannabedamned · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:44

As you can see, I'm not 100% sure where my problem lies, Which is why i've posted in here.

I have a LiteON LH-20A1P-487C 20x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Write (blatant copy and paste

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Anyways, It takes around 30-40 minutes to burn a data DVD. Just backing up AVIs. I don't re encode them, Or anything like that, It's just straight data disc.

I'm not sure where my problem is, I'm using Nero 7 to burn.

I do have several hard drives, and i was wondering if it was some sort of cache problem? Maybe the AVI's i'm burning are on my E drive, But Nero is caching to my C drive, so i'm getting bad bottlenecking?

I don't know, I'm clueless I believe. Does anyone have any advise? Or maybe a way of my tracking down whats delaying me so badly.

For the record, The writer tells me it's burning at 18x, So thats extra confusion in the mix.

More to add as I just remembered.

When burning a disk, My computer more or less dies, Even music playing through winamp, slows down, and stutters and like slurs.

here's my computer spec.

Opty 146 @ 2.6ghz (Prime stable for 12 hours)
Gskill 2gb RAM (DDR500) - 3 4 4 8
Asrock dual sata2
3 Hard drives, 1 IDE(OS drive) 2 Sata.

allllec · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:48

A long shot - but does nero have an option for where to store temp files? it could be copying them to that location first (probably C:\blah blah\uuser naem\blah blah\temp)

which would add a few minutes to the process - as i said long shot - not really my field of expertise

bandit · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:54

have you checked your cpu useage when ypou started b urning?
download a free burner and see how it does, it could be nero.

wannabedamned · 19 Oct 2007 at 14:43

I'm still having problems with this if anyone can help.

I decided to take Nero out of the equation, and downloaded a freeware DVD/CD performance tool. It gave me an average of 2x DVD read speed. I didnt do a burning speed because that read speed is stupidly low surely. And If i fix that i probably fix the other problem too

It's so annoying, I managed to burn a dvd first day i got the writer, in just over 5 minutes. Thats a full 4.7gb. I cant think of anything that I would have changed, but all of a sudden, 2x dvd reading, and 30-40 minute backups!? It's a 20x writer!!

As for CPU usage, It's around 90%

mattyrigby00 · 19 Oct 2007 at 14:45

go into device manager and check on all the "Ide controllers" to make sure they are in DMA mode rather than PIO mode.

wannabedamned · 19 Oct 2007 at 16:01

They are all DMA but 1, Which is PIO, I have it selected to use DMA is available though, and it still says its PIO even after a restart, So i'm guessing thats not my writer.

As said though, The others are set to DMA, and the problem still exists unfortunately.

wannabedamned · 19 Oct 2007 at 16:03

I don't know if its a clue, but even when just running a read speed test. The computer becomes very laggy.

I'm going to play in the BIOS a little bit, See if i've got a silly setting somewhere lol.

wannabedamned · 19 Oct 2007 at 17:27

I've fixed it, I'm a doofus(would say something else beginning with D, but I'm sure swearies arent allowed)

I had it set to slave, It had its own IDE channel, Shared with nothing else, And it was a slave. grrr.

Anyways, Sorted now, I can have blistering 20x Speeds if i hadn't only got 18x discs

Cheers anyways!