my brother just bought a pioneer DVDr-108. great burner an so much cheaper and more features then the one i bought back in feburary. anyway he picked up a spindle of retek 8x -r (I believe they are the G05s but Im not sure as hes away at campus and when he comes home next week i can test them.
anyway I was helping him through remote assistance in nero to COPY a DVD I lent him (the DVD I lent him was a already a copy). anyway it seemed to be going at 12x and not 8x. I was just wondering how this was possible seeing as the media he bought was 8x?
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some dvd burners allow "overspeeding" of media. The media may be 8x certified, but a dvd burner can ignore that information and burn at whatever speed the firmware will allow. What media will "overspeed" is programmed in the firmware of the particular dvd burner.
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There's nothing strange to it. If you check the disc with DVDInfoPro you'll see that the media has 12X Write desciptor available.
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Yes the 108 will burn Go5 at 12x but watch the clock and see how much time its saves over a 8x burn..... All of 10 secs on the one i did....
Get some TY2 and it will stretch to 16x..Not bothered by small problems...
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Be AWARE about 12x burning with the DVR-108 drive, I don't know how this varies between different drives. Time the burns, and when I say time.. Don't rely on the time shown by the software. Get a stopwatch, watch the clock, or something. Burning at 12x seemingly CAN take up to about 2 minutes LONGER than it does at 8x, this lame phenomena occurs due to "switch" points the drive uses to bump up its speed when it hits a certain part of the burn. Hitting the switch points causes a delay which explains the longer burn time. I suggest doing two identical data burns at 8x, and 12x; timed. You may just find that 8x is actually 'faster'.
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When burning at 8X /from the hard drive/ the dvd burner changes speed twice. The burn starts at 6X then at ~400MB it switches to 8X then at ~2000 MB it goes up to 12X. Total burn time is 8-9 min. After that
if you look at the disc against the light at certain angle you can notice 3 distinctive "rings" of different shades of the burning surface color which I assume correspond to the different burning speeds.
I have both DVR107D and DVR108 and this holds true for
Prodisc MCC 02RG20, RITEKG05 and TYG02 /al printable media/. The rings are most visible on Prodisc and least visible on TYG02. I haven't done any scans with KProbe but the reading tests with DVDInfoPro are OK and all discs play fine. -
Has anyone burned 8x media at 12x on Plextor 712? If so how goes it?
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how do you burn the max speed of drive on less speed media? like burn 8x on 4x media?
I have a MSI DR8-A which is an 8x. In descriptions and reviews, it says that it can burn 8x with 4x media.
What I want to know is how is that done? The drive always detects that max capable of disc is 4x. -
I have a MSI DR8-A which is an 8x. In descriptions and reviews, it says that it can burn 8x with 4x media. Might aslo need firmware updating.
Should be a list of campatable media on manufacture's site and what speed it will burn at.Not bothered by small problems...
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Originally Posted by iooi
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Originally Posted by Solarflair
Dont matter if they printable or non-printable some brands will not burn faster than they say....Not bothered by small problems...
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