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Posted by Voinin on 05/03/06 18:09
Bob wrote:
> On Tue, 02 May 2006 17:31:13 -0700, Voinin <vboing@boing.biz> wrote:
>
>> why does burning slower work when burning faster fails?
>
> Be careful - although slower burning might give you fewer coasters, it
> does not guarantee longevity. I found that out the hard way.
>
> There is only one way to burn discs - burn Tayio Yuden discs. If you
> burn anything else you run the considerable risk that you will either
> end up with a coaster or worse end up with a disc that will not play
> in 6 months.
>
> The second consideration is the burner itself. Do your homework -
> consult CDFreaks for the latest advise. I did that and bought an NEC
> 3540 and have had great success with it. There were some other burners
> at the time but they did not have the high rating that the 3540 had.
>
> Stay away from anything from Sony. Those pricks won't even support
> their own brands. Choose only well-established brand names that have a
> solid backing.
>
> It used to be that if you bought Plextor you got the top of the line.
> But if you do your homework you learn that is no longer true. Plextor
> caved into marketing pressures and bought crap from OEM suppliers and
> now users are bitching about the poor quality.
>
> I am not a shill for either NEC or Taiyo Yuden. But I can strongly
> recommend
>
> NEC 3550A, $37 beige
> http://www.directron.com/nd3550abeg.html
>
> TY 8x -Rs, $32 per 100
> http://tinyurl.com/72nn2/
Thanks for the info. However, I do have a question here: This is a 16X
burner, but how does it do this with UDMA33? In the past when I've
tried to burn at 16X with only DMA33, the software can't keep up with
the drive's burn speed and so the buffer drains to some degree. This
obviously slows things down, and in fact, the max speed I've been able
to attain during this is about 14X. (As mentioned in the original
message, my DVD burning is now done at 8X all the time.) Or is there
perhaps something wrong with what I'm doing?
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