Originally posted by: KF
Originally posted by: Creig
Good Lord! Who is THAT impatient that they need a 60x burner?!? Pretty soon it's going to take you longer to insert the CD than it takes to burn it. And then what's next? A predictive algorithm for Nero that will burn your info to CD before you've finished deciding what should go on it?
In going to a 40x in comparison to to an 8x, I have not found that the burn time goes down in the proportion 1/5. In fact, it usually isn't much faster, maybe a minute less. Getting much under a true 6 minutes for a 700M burn is hard, if measuring total time to pressing start. The software does all kinds of checking, loads up all kinds of buffers, and queues up the files before it does anything. To avoid coasters, the new burners auto-speed on the fly while checking for errors, and do auto retries, so just because it is set for 40x doesn't mean you get the super speed. IAC setting up what I want to put on the CD takes way more time than burning.
um, under 6 min is hard? my lite-on 40x12x48 turned 48x12x48 (firmware update) takes on average 2min 45 sec to burn a cd, with 3min 20 sec as the longest at 40-48x speeds, the slowest I have burned with it (24x) takes only about 4min 30sec.
To answer another question, no, it is not going to burn at 1/5 the time. This is due to the fact that there is no motor fast enough to spin a cd and have it burn at 48x on the inner tracts. My burner starts at about 22x and ramps uo to 49-50x+ at the end of the burn (depending on cd media) the actual speed needed to reach 48x on the inner track was something ungodly like 30,000 RPM (don't remember the exact number, but it was huge) my burner averages about 38x every burn
As for burning coasters or getting errors... none so far and as I said (at least, no errors that cause a unreadable CD as all burned cd's have some errors), I have never burned at slower than 24x (old 12x media) in the new lite-on. True, it is relativly new and I have yet to break 50 burned cd's on it (about 43ish if my count is correct) but not a single coaster. Some of that has to do with using everything but CMC manufactored cd-r's. (mostly using TY's)
I am not trying to insult a 16x burner, in fact, I would have loved one not to long ago (I uprgrade from a 4x I had for 2.5 years) and my roomates 12x works beautfully.