- Apr 19, 2001
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I just bought this backup program: NTI Backup NOW! for running a backups onto CD-R's. I discovered that it takes almost 40 minutes to write out a single CD-R's data using this program, which works out to something like 2x speed. And this is on my AXP 1800+ system with 7200RPM hard disk and 24x Lite-On CD-RW.
Normal burning programs work great at 24x on my Lite-On drive, so 2x is pretty painful. I emailed the company, and the guy said the program uses packet writing mode, so the speed is limited by how fast the CD-R does that. So my questions are:
1) Why the heck use packet writing to write a CD-R? Does that make sense at all?
2) My CD-R is rated at 10x for re-writables, so isn't 2x still unreasonable?
3) Has anyone here used this program and seen better CD-R writing performance?
Normal burning programs work great at 24x on my Lite-On drive, so 2x is pretty painful. I emailed the company, and the guy said the program uses packet writing mode, so the speed is limited by how fast the CD-R does that. So my questions are:
1) Why the heck use packet writing to write a CD-R? Does that make sense at all?
2) My CD-R is rated at 10x for re-writables, so isn't 2x still unreasonable?
3) Has anyone here used this program and seen better CD-R writing performance?
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