DVD writing speeds...

[movie freak]

if a dvd re writer burns -r, +r, at 4x how fast is that? like in minutes

[rhegedus]

About 15 mins.

[movie freak]

hmm i did a firmware upgrade on my sony dru-500a drive... and it writes a dvd in 25 minutes... at 4x?? you got any ideas whats up with that... also you wouldnt happen to live in cumbria?

[Kingnog]

It kinda depends on how much data's on the cd...obviously burning 500mb is going to take a lot less time than burning 4gb

^ (useless response, I have nothing else to do)

[Kingnog]

ROAR!! Funny face!

[rhegedus]

I take it you set your burner up properly (DMA, master, separate channel etc).

[movie freak]

erm not really... i just put it in... and used the same ide cable as i am with my cd-rewriter... my dvd rewriter is on the slave drive i think or secondary... but my cd-rewriter is on the master drive... how can i change this?

[rhegedus]

If you can't put it on a separate cable (but not RAID), but the DRU as master and the CD burner as slave - remember the little jumpers on the back of the drive?

[rixh]

I have a Pioneer DVR-106D and it only takes me on average to burn a full 4.38 ritek dvd-r 14mins 38secs to burn full disk...

[andkiich]

25 minutes sounds to me like it's burning at 2.4x

Could be possible that it is reporting 4x but only burning at 2.4x

You could try different media and see if it burns faster. The current discs may not be liked by the burner and will only burn at 2.4x

[movie freak]

how come you can only write up to 4.38 instead of 4.7gb?

[super-al]

I had the same problem could not write at 4x even though it said it was ..The problem was the media .. i have fornd that Optodisc gold 4x and fujifilm 4x burn in 14 min. others i have tried have not

[gmatov]

Moviefreak,

A lot of replies to other posts have explained that 4.7 gig is equivalent to a 160 gig hard drive's advertising.

4.7 billion bytes. They play silly numbers games, ussing 1 billion as a "gigabyte" whereas 1073741824 is an actual binary gigabyte X 4.38 comes out to approx 4.7 BILLION bytes.

My 160 "gigabyte" HDD is only 152 gigs on one machine. Funny, though, the one on the other machine reads 163 gigs.

I don't know whether they design a batch as 160 and format them and some can go higher than others, and still get shipped in the same batch.

Same, I guess,as the WDs they were selling as X gig, 20 gigs free, actual X+20. Maybe it all depends on what they need to make that week, can be formatted as 60 gig or 160gig, same device..

This might be entirely inappropriate in this post.

Sorry.

[maveric4001]

please can someone explain why you shouldnt put a dvd burner on raid,
actually what is raid

Thanks

[ebenton]

please can someone explain why you shouldnt put a dvd burner on raid,
actually what is raid

Thanks

Check this site for a definition of RAID: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci214332,00.html

Because RAID involves duplication of data on multiple disks, using a DVD burner would make it very complicated, to say the least.

[maveric4001]

Hi Ebenton,

Thanks for the link (interesting)

But can you help me clarify that if you install an IDE 133 controller card it wont be raid, and that raid is a totally different kind of card. That being the case could I also assume that if I put an Ide 133 controller card in my machine that it will work with opticals, or are there specific cards for that job to.
I would appreciate a list of what you know works well if DVD backup (ie ripping, burning) is the main priority

Thanks M8

[mrbass]

Blank DVD-R 4,489MB 4,706,074,624 bytes or 4.383GB
Blank DVD+R 4,483MB 4,700,372,992 bytes or 4.377GB

8X DVD+R burntime 9mins
4X DVD+R burntime 14mins
4X DVD-R burntime 16mins
2.4X DVD+R burntime 22mins
2X DVD-R burntime 31mins
1X DVD-R burntime 61mins