Burning at 2X

[Michael Wohlford]

I have a 4x4x24x burner. I know burning at 2x is the best. If I were to get a 16x10x48x burner, will the quality be the same if I burn at 4x instead of 2x? With a 4x4x24x burner, burning at top speed is like "throwing" the file on the CD instead of burning it with precision. With a 16x10x48x burner, is 4x still "throwing" the file in there or is it writing with precision? I tried to make this post as clear as possible. I see it as a ratio for 2x at 4x4x16 and a 4x at 16x10x48x. Is it even worth buying the 16x burner? If I do, do I still have to burn at 2x?

[vitualis]

Assuming that your burner can handle the top burn speed (it should) and your CD-R media is rated at that speed (buy good quality media), then burn speed is irrelevant. It does not affect quality in any way or form.

However, this is assuming that you have a drive that can read CD-R media properly. If you have a DVD player that is not designed to playback CD-R/W media, then burn speed can sometimes have an influence on the "readability" of the disc. However, this is not an exact science and there are no simple answers. You will probably have to experiment for yourself what is the best settings to use.

Regards.

[tww1]

Well you can say what you want to but burning other then 2x speed i see a ton of differance. I do all of mine at 2x work great. Most CD burner above 12x dont do 2 times anymore but then some do the BusLink dose and it a Great one.


Best Of Luck

[Vejita-sama]

I have the LiteON 24x CDRW and always burn at full speed. Haven't never had any problems. What's the rest of your system look like, the bottleneck might be somewhere else or you might have a 'so-so burner'.

[Michael Wohlford]

I have a HP 766 MHz with 128 MB ram and 8 MB video.

[Nelson37]

I had a Liteon 8x, using Verbatim Valuelife disks rated 12x and burn at 6 or 8 got many read errors, much better at 4x. Memorex Blacks no errors at 4x, haven't tested faster as I thought the consensus was stronger and/or longer laser pulse and less positional or other errors at low speeds? I have switched to Buslink 10x with Burn-Proof - had a successful burn with a blue screen error in the middle!