CD burner speeds?

Shane

Shane

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Hi all,

is there an application that can determine how fast your cd/cd writers or dvd drives are?

all i know about my current burner is its lite-on with a 2mb buffer size lol

im planning on upgrading it to a faster sata one.

cheers
 
When you're burning a CD or DVD, it normally gives you the option to select the burn speed... Slower is a better quality, but obviously takes a longer.

If it's a new DVD/CD Drive, the read speed should be x52.
 
hey dan,

yeah i use Ashampoo burning studio 2008 but it didnt ask me what speed,well i didnt see any speed settings anyway.
the drive isnt new,my cousin gave it me and its not bad its quite fast when burning audio tracks etc but when it comes to movies it takes quite some time :cool:

i actualy think the burner in my old Hp is faster :D so thats why i wanted to compare speeds etc.
 
It prob doesnt ask you every time but its in the preferences somewere. You can set the speed. Same thing in wmp 11.
 
Any program should allow you to set what speed you burn at and won't allow you to set speeds any higher than the drive is capable of. I think IMGBurn shows you the current burn speed as it writes a disk. You could probably simulate a burn to do a benchmark without wasting disks. It's fairly uncommon to see burners working to their full potential.
 
The_Other_One said:
Any program should allow you to set what speed you burn at and won't allow you to set speeds any higher than the drive is capable of. I think IMGBurn shows you the current burn speed as it writes a disk. You could probably simulate a burn to do a benchmark without wasting disks. It's fairly uncommon to see burners working to their full potential.
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Disks are cheap now days anyways. I get a 100pack of cd's for $11 and a 50pack of dvd+r's for $11
 
Nero has a program built-in that determines the read/write speeds for various drives, you should check it out. You can download a trial from www.nero.com
 
Nevakonaza said:
Hi all,

is there an application that can determine how fast your cd/cd writers or dvd drives are?

all i know about my current burner is its lite-on with a 2mb buffer size lol

im planning on upgrading it to a faster sata one.

cheers
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Do you know the model number, if not it will probable list the model number in your device manager under your DVD/CD-rom drives
 
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