40x and 48x cdrw's only burning at 24x?

[Techno]

Hello,

I have 3 systems that are 99.9% identical. Only difference is two of the systems has CD burners in them. One is a TDK VeloCD 40x CDRW and the other is LiteOn 48x CDRW. Now when i am burning some cd's in Nero, it for some reason after doing the speed test, slows the burn speed down to 24x on both drivers. How can i speed them up to the top speeds?

btw, for the people who will state the obvious. I already have Ultra DMA enabled for both of them.

Thank you!

 

[numark]

I don't have Nero installed on my new Windows install yet, so I'm going in the dark in terms of what menus to go to, but this is the basic gist of it:

Go into Nero and go to Choose Recorder (it's in one of the menus). Click on the "More" (Advanced, whatever it's called) so it pops down an extra row of options in the window. Uncheck the box labeled "Optimum Writespeed Control". Burn at 40x/48x

 

[Codewiz]

You better media.

Smartburn is slowing it down because your media can't be written to at that high of a speed without some errors.

 

[imported_Mike]

you are fooled by the advertisement of "max" speeds. on all cd burners the fastest speed is a max speek and only usually reaches that max speed in the last min of finalization.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
You better media.

Smartburn is slowing it down because your media can't be written to at that high of a speed without some errors.

agreed

 

[Insidious]

Think of it this way.... you probably won't be able to write at the advertised "max" without making a coaster from time to time.

but if you are sporting good hardware (which you are!) you will be writing faster than if you were using an older POS.

-Sid

 

[Steven the Leech]

Try flashing the firmware to the latest...and use 48x media. I know on my Lite on 48x the newer firmware made a big difference, not so much in speed, but with less errors after writing a disk. TY disks work well in the Lite On

Browse The Forums For Your Drive

 

[jeffrey]

Is your media 48X certified?

 

[SafeZone]

the firmware upgrade on lite-on's website won't install for me... it says I need to have firmware version zxxx to zxxx and I have like zg04 or something...i have a 40/12/48 40125S ....where's the firmware updates for the older firmware??

 

[blackhawk]

I have a 40 and a 48x Liteon and the fastest my media will burn is 36x and thats pretty good. There are some 40x media available but big manufacturers are balking at producing media that'll support over 48x burning.
Can you imagine the carnage if a disk flew apart at 15000 rpm?

With burner prices so low, media prices are getting more competitive and the margins are thin.

Try picking up a few higher quality disks rated for faster speeds and see what it burns at.

 

[RanDum72]

Ok, are you talking about CD-R's or CD-RW's? I haven't seen CD-RW's rated at 40-48x, only CD-R's. Also, the fastest burners I've seen can only burn CD-RW's at 24x. Notice that burners are rated 40/24/40? The first is burn speed with CD-R's, second is burn speed for CD-RW's and the third is read speed.

 

[Oric]

You'r damn lucky !

My Phillips 48x16x48x has not burned any disc, alas the "demo CD-R" that was bundled with, any faster than 16x !

I have tried all OEM CD-R Media that were "certified" for 48x with no success.

I will try a TDK tonight and see what happens.

 

[jeffrey]

I recently got a Yamaha 44x24x44 and it was bundled with one 16x cdr. I burned that cd at 16x and then went to Best Buy and bought some Fuji certified 48x media, now it always burns at 44x.

 

[Steven the Leech]

http://www.liteonit.com/english/index-english.htm



safe the frimware should be on that page, under downloads

 

[Techno]

Hi,

The CD's I have are Sony's and they are rated to 40x. Sot he lite on won't work but the TDK should of burned at 40x. I also had a 32x CDR laying around and I put it in my TDK drive and tried to burn a CD (music). it burned it at 16x?!?!?

 

[Maezr]

Originally posted by: Insidious
Think of it this way.... you probably won't be able to write at the advertised "max" without making a coaster from time to time.

but if you are sporting good hardware (which you are!) you will be writing faster than if you were using an older POS.

-Sid

Exactly.

You WILL NOT get the advertised max speed 99% of the time. It just won't happen.

 

[SafeZone]

http://www.liteonit.com/english/index-english.htm



safe the frimware should be on that page, under downloads

yea I downloaded their driver, but it won't install, says I need a certain firmware version taht I don't have in order to install...I must have an old firmware, I need to update that first with an older installer before the new one will work....