12X Media BURN AT 32X !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[l31itz]

I have an entire 50pack of Kingston Hypermedia from Outpost.com that's rated at 12x. Will this stuff burn at 32X? What's the difference anyway?

 

[Paulson]

What kind of burner do you have?

Some burners will burn media at their highest speed no matter what, but this can cause some problems... basically it's trial and error...

 

[l31itz]

Paulson,

I'm using the Lite-On 32x CD-RW. How do you know if you run into a problem? If a problem arises will it even finish burning? Or will it say "Burn Successful" when it really screwed up? Thanks.

 

[Finality]

It might burn at 32X. I have some 8X media that burns at 24X however they cannot be read by all machines. 100% of them can be read when burnt @ 8 or 12X though.

 

[l31itz]

Finality,

Is there any way to know which drives can read it and which can't?

 

[Paulson]

What kind of cd's will you be making?

Music or data?

With music cd's there may be some screwups, or there may not...

that's why I say you just gotta try it and see how it goes... so what if you end up wasting one cd-r, they're not that expensive anyways

 

[l31itz]

Thanks for the info Paulson. I'm mostly gonna be making music CD's. I guess I'll burn one and try it out. Even if I use 32x rated media, I heard there are problems with music CD's. Is this just rumor?

 

[bacillus]

<< I heard there are problems with music CD's. Is this just rumor? >>


plexor apparently limits audio cd copying to x24 with their x40 cdrw drive so read into that what you want!

 

[Eug]

It seems people on the CDRW boards are saying that the 32X Lite-On is a bit more picky about media. ie. the 32X doesn't write as well at 32X to crappy media as does the 24X does at 24X, for obvious reasons.

Also, sometimes when my friend burns at full speed to cheap media, they work fine in his own machine and in my Mac's Toshiba drive, but my PC drives cannot read them consistently.

For important stuff I burn 24X on Mitsui 24X media ($$$). For throwaways to be read by my own drive only, I burn on whatever cheap media I happen to have at the time.