Problem with proper CD-R burn speeds on a DVD burner.

[TylerJ]

Hi,

I have an Optorite DD0405 8x4x12 DVD+/-RW drive and it burns CD's at an advertised 40x24x40 speed. However, in Alcohol and Nero I can't get the speeds past 16x on any of my CDs. All of my CD's are different brands, Optimum, imation, and memorex. All say 48x speed CD-R's. This burner shows as 40x max burn on alcohol and nero and its device settings.

Anyone help me out here?

Thanks
Tyler

*EDIT*
Nero says it can only write at 16x because the speed of the source data is too low. Does this mean the data from comp or from the blank? Thanks.

[Zechnubis]

it means your computer (test hd speeds from within nero) cant send data quick enough to your burner.

This happens when you got a slow hd, or it is heavily fragged. Run defrag and then run Nero's built-in hd speed checking.