DVD-RW sloooow. is this right?

[charker]

I have a Pioneer DVR-104 and it seems to work fine, burning a 1x DVD-R in about 1hr.

It also formats a DVD-RW in just over an hour.

But dragging files onto it in Explorer takes an age!

How long should a directory containng 3.5GB of data in hundreds of files and numerous directories take to copy from disk to DVD-RW?

I'm using XP, NERO-InCD (I tried DirectCD also).

I'm also using DATASAFE media, could that be the reason?

thanks

Cliff

[Greg12]

UDF packet writting software is the spawn of satan.


YOu would be MUCH better off to burn an ISO DVD in multisession mode.

I lost alot of disks to UDF packet writters, it crashed closing the disk and I had to eject it and it was ruined.

I have NEVER had a problem adding to a multisession CD-R.

[charker]

I'll take your advice into consideration but I would still like to know how fast DVD-RW ought to be.

Surely someone out there uses Windows XP and Direct CD and treats the DVD-RW like a floppy disk.

How long, roughly, does it take to drag and drop a load of files to nearly fill a DVD-RW?

I'm just doing a backup of an installation folder, it's 3.5GB and I wasn't expecting it to takes all day, and I mean all day.

Cliff

[Eug]

1X is around 1 hour. Thus 2X is around 30 mins. 2.4X is around 25 mins.

The DVR-104 does DVD-R on certified media at 2X, or otherwise at 1X. It does DVD-RW at 1X.

DVD-RW packet writing. Hmmm... If you want drag and drop the best technology for that would be DVD-RAM. 1X speed (until Oct. when 2X drives will be released) and more reliable. 3.5 GB would take about 45-50 mins on 1X DVD-RAM.

How long is it taking you?

[charker]

It can take hours, 4 or 5 maybe.

It seems to slow after a while. Is there a file allocation table limit whereby things have to be shuffled around when >n files have been copied?

What should the capacity be? I assume you have to reformat to get space back from deleted files, this thing thinks it's full at 2.4GB.

I have since quick reformatted and done an ISO image copy in 33 mins.

Seems this UDF (or whatever it is) is a bit too limited for DVD

Cliff

[Eug]

It can take hours, 4 or 5 maybe.

Ouch!

Seems this UDF (or whatever it is) is a bit too limited for DVD

DVD-RAM generally uses. UDF 1.5 or 2 for data. No slow downs whatsoever (ie. 4.3 GB 1 hr at 1X, with 2X available in October). Like I've always said, the ideal drag-n-drop technology for data on DVD is DVD-RAM, not Mt. Rainier DVD+RW, or DVD-RW.

[PhilipL]

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