Are these speeds slow?

[pastorjay]

I am new to this, so I just want an opinion or two.
I have the Plextor 708A and I just backed up a dvd that we use for homeschooling. It took about 20 minutes to copy to the hard drive and then about 26 minutes to burn. That seemed aweful slow to me. I am using Ritek GO4 4x dvd-r disks. What do ya think?


System specs
p4 2.4c @ 280 fsb
1GB OCZ 4000 EL (running it @ 1:1 - 560 ddr)
2x WD 120GB SATA drives in raid 0
Rad 9800 pro
Lite-On DvD Rom
Plextor 708A dvd burner
Hercules Game Theater XP
Windows XP Pro


PJ

[BJ_M]

depends on how big the dvd is

[ktton]

That's slow. It usually takes about 15 minutes to burn a full dvd at 4x.

[halcyon026]

If the Media is 4x and the burner is 4x thats slow. are you sure you had 4x selected as the speed to burn at?
Maybe your system isnt using UDMA 2 for your drive?

[jaxxboss]

Not really that slow. A full dvd burn at 4x is about 21min give or take. It may be on the high side by a few min but not that big a deal

[SLICK RICK]

20 min. for a dvd burner to rip a dvd to your hard drive is not that bad (you would get faster rip speeds with a seperate dvd-rom) but the 26 min. to burn the dvd is a little slow if you were burning at 4x but that would be about right if you were burning at 2x. So check at what speed it is burning at. Just curious, Is your dvd burner internal or do you have it in a external enclosure?

SLICK RICK

[lordsmurf]

A full 4x DVD-R burn should be no more than 16 minutes, else your computer has issues.

[pastorjay]

Let me claify a few things.

1. It is an internal Plextor 708A

2. I do have a separate Lite-On DvD player in the rig.

3. In CloneDvD, I am not sure that I can select the speed, but I will check.


I will also check the UDMA setting for the drive. I am pretty sure it was using the correct setting. The Plextor is the first drive I have seen with a jumper setting for dma. I have it set to master still though.

PJ

[PyrosofT]

I am able to burn a 4,464 Meg DVD in 13.50 +- 5 seconds.
I use Arita 4x and a NEC 1100a, so I would say that 25 minutes is very slow indeed.

I found that deleting both IDE channels then rebooting speeded it up by about 30 seconds, you could give that a try.
I am using Windows XP so I am unsure what it is like doing this on 98 or below.

[tompika]

and then about 26 minutes to burn. That seemed aweful slow to me. I am using Ritek GO4 4x dvd-r disks. What do ya think?

My friend's Nec 1300A burns 4472MB to RitekG04 DVD-R in 14:30 at 4x speed.

My Ricoh5125 burns DVD+R/W in 23-24 minutes at 2.4x

[pastorjay]

Well, I am assuming then that these disks are not burning at 4x. I do not see an option to change speeds in dvdclone, though I am still looking. I have a heavily overclocked rig. I am adding my system specs in the original post just in case someone might see something.

PJ

[tompika]

- update firmware
- update burning software
- defrag HDD
- check DMA
- check IDE connection and jumper settings (hook up as Secondary Master)

Nice Plextor review here
http://cdrlabs.com/reviews/index.php?reviewid=203

[northcat_8]

My system:

2.2 AMD Athlon
1 GB of DDR PC2700 RAM
2 - 80 GB NTFS formatted maxtor 7200 in a stripe 0 RAID array
60 GB maxtor 7200 OS drive

Ripping a DVD-9 with decrypter takes about 14 minutes.
Burning a 4.6 GB ISO file with decrypter takes about 11-12 minutes.

Incidently, since we are talking speeds here. I was made a video and had my authoring program write it to disc as an ISO file. Well the ISO was about 5 GB so I needed to compress it, so using Daemon Tools, I loaded the ISO file then used DVD Decrypter to rip the virtual drive....my rip speed was (23.65x) ripped in like 3 minutes....now...if I could only get that ripping from a hardware DVD drive... 8)