Anyone with 15min 4x burn speeds on Sony??

[mimo330ci]

I bought this Sony for the simple fact that it said it supported 4x burn speeds on DVD-R which should translate to 15min burns.

What I've seen on these message boards is that the drive does really go 4x... it still takes about 30 minutes to burn a DVD-R.


has anyone gotten the Sony to burn 4x (15 minute burns) ??

[mimo330ci]

I bought this Sony for the simple fact that it said it supported 4x burn speeds on DVD-R which should translate to 15min burns.

What I've seen on these message boards is that the drive does really go 4x... it still takes about 30 minutes to burn a DVD-R.


has anyone gotten the Sony to burn 4x (15 minute burns) ??

I GUESS NOT.

[ToddB]

What is your cpu usage like when burning? I will comfirm my finding later tonight...have to be somewhere now.

[heretic422]

That's what attracted me to the Sony, but at $3 a piece on the 4x media maybe it's not that important. That's what Meritline has the media for but I don't think the price difference is worth it. I've burned at 2x with Memorex DVD-R v2 and Accu and Ritek as well. If the price comes down on the media I might look into it further, but for now I don't think it's worth the 15 minutes of time savings. Besides, there's always something to be busy with for the 15 minutes.

I don't think this answers your questions but if a DVD+R is $2.85 for 2.4x and a DVD-R is $3 for 4x...is the extra 1.6x worth 15 cents? If indeed you're really going to burn at true 4x?

Besides, that's Nero's rated speed, at least in my experience and not too accurate. I burn at 2.4x in about 26 minutes.

Let's see if anyone responds.

[donpedro]

Send me one. I'll test it

Just kidding, but this is I think like 4th post that is asking the same question.

[mimo330ci]

That's what attracted me to the Sony, but at $3 a piece on the 4x media maybe it's not that important. That's what Meritline has the media for but I don't think the price difference is worth it. I've burned at 2x with Memorex DVD-R v2 and Accu and Ritek as well. If the price comes down on the media I might look into it further, but for now I don't think it's worth the 15 minutes of time savings. Besides, there's always something to be busy with for the 15 minutes.

I don't think this answers your questions but if a DVD+R is $2.85 for 2.4x and a DVD-R is $3 for 4x...is the extra 1.6x worth 15 cents? If indeed you're really going to burn at true 4x?

Besides, that's Nero's rated speed, at least in my experience and not too accurate. I burn at 2.4x in about 26 minutes.

Let's see if anyone responds.

At this point I'm not even looking at the price issue.

I bought a Sony burner that claims to do 4X, but from what I'm hearing..... it DOESN'T.

That's like buying a Ferrari that comes with a Honda engine in it.

[donpedro]

mimo330ci, I would not try Ferrari with some very cheap gasoline. Try some branded 4x media. Not meritline. And I am not saying that Sony is not the problem.

[ToddB]

See this post CPU usage.

[crimpshrine]

mimo330ci, I would not try Ferrari with some very cheap gasoline. Try some branded 4x media. Not meritline. And I am not saying that Sony is not the problem.

Yeah I would have to agree, since 4x media is pretty new you would probably want to try the best of it for now.

To original poster:

Also other things can factor into your burn speed, before I moved my DRU500A over to a Windows XP box I have setup, I was getting like 1 hour and 15 minute burn times under 98SE (at 1x). Nothing I could see could explain why, my transfer rates were higher then my XP box HD's (SCSI 15K RPM'S in the 98SE box) When I moved it over to XP, then my burn times for 1x media were at the proper 1 hour mark.

Now I only burn 2x Ritek, that seems to be the sweet spot in time vs $$ at the moment. 30 minutes per disk. When 4x media is what 2x is currently at, then I will move to that..

I highly doubt Sony would make a burner that they say works at 4x that does not. You might have stumbled onto a bug or something since 4x media is so recent.

Good luck.