Burning Buffers

[BluntMan Bob]

After finding Nero will not burn DVD reliably I have started using Alcohol 120%. But I'm a bit confused, when burning as in Nero there is a Buffers used bar always at 100%. I was wondering what these buffers are and if there is any way of increasing them for faster burning?

My CPU and RAM usage is very low during the burning, I thought maybe it's just a case of allocating more RAM. Can you help?

Yes there is an option to increase buffers but it says a max. of 128MB. It seems a waste of my 1GB of DDR400 RAM

[jeremyp969]

If the buffer stays at 100% during the burn then increasing the buffer size will not speed up your burn at all. Your burn speed is limited by the speed of your burner. The buffer is just a temporary buffer in RAM that Nero(or whatever) uses to store data before it is DMA'd(or PIO) to the burner. Hard drives are very slow when compared to RAM, so having this temporary buffer allows there to be spikes in usage of the hard drive during burning without getting a buffer underrun.

[BluntMan Bob]

Thanks.