Does slower burning speed help?

[dawgtuff]

Does slowing down the burning speed on a CD/DVD give you better/more reliable recordings?

 

[mpilchfamily]

no. Most bad burns are due to defective media. (aka a bad disk)

 

[santz]

i want to know the answer to that too. i always burn my sual layer dvd backups at the slowest speed. and I think it helps.

 

[corkyg]

Slower burn speed often makes poor media usable. Some burn programs let the burner decide so that the speed varies as necessary.

 

[fffblackmage]

I don't burn anything on low or high speeds. Low is just too slow and high because of possible unreliability.

 

[dawgtuff]

Thanks for the input. I think I'll try a burning speed somewhere in the middle. Also, what brand is the best/good media for Cd's and DVD's?

 

[ChaiBabbaChai]

Taiyo Yuden is the #1 for DVDs, MCC discs are next best. MCC is a manufacturer and can be sold under several brand names. I have some Verbatims which I bought recently that are MCC. Here's my source: http://www.best-dvd-burning-software-reviews.com/best-blank-dvd-media.asp

I bought some Imation discs that were CMC and the first 5 or so worked, the rest had calibration issues and went into the trash.

CD discs don't need to be great media to work, but some may last longer than others in storage.

 

[Billb2]

Does slowing down the burning speed on a CD/DVD give you better/more reliable recordings?

Your question is phrased kind of ambiguously.

If you mean the movies will look better, the music will sound better, or the disks will last longer, then no.

If you mean having a better success of completing a burn, then yes.

 

[43st]

Good media is very important, I used to get the Matsui silvers (back when burning things was still cool). A slow speed, like 2x or 4x, was also recommended for successful writes to the disk. I always assumed this helped the data integrity as well, but I'm not sure about that.

I do have some 10 year old burned data disks now that can still be read, but they take forever to show up in a file browser. I moved all that stuff to an online backup, I don't think it will be readable much longer.

 

[gsaldivar]

Slower burn speed often makes poor media usable.

Agreed.

Slower burn speed can also help if you're trying to use the discs on older equipment which may have trouble reading discs burned at the fastest speeds.

 

[Modelworks]

Slower burn speed creates more reliable burns most of the time. The reason is that a disc spinning at high speed will vibrate , when the laser hits the dye within the track it has to change that bit enough that a reader will be able to tell if it is a 0 or 1. Slower burning and less vibration gives it more time to do that and with greater accuracy. There is no perfect 0 or 1 on a burned cd only percentages and the margin of error the reader expects.

You can have a spot burned as a 1 that will read 90% of the time as a 1 on the majority of readers or you can have a 60% chance of the bit being read a 1. All depends on the media , burner and reader.

That is why cd readers will slow down the rotation of a disc when they are having trouble reading . They are trying to lower the vibration of the disc in hopes of reading the defective bits enough to decide it is a zero or 1. Some readers are better than others .

 

[ecom]

Taiyo Yuden is the #1 for DVDs, MCC discs are next best. MCC is a manufacturer and can be sold under several brand names. I have some Verbatims which I bought recently that are MCC. Here's my source: http://www.best-dvd-burning-software-reviews.com/best-blank-dvd-media.asp

I bought some Imation discs that were CMC and the first 5 or so worked, the rest had calibration issues and went into the trash.

CD discs don't need to be great media to work, but some may last longer than others in storage.

Taiyo Yuden can be hard to find in stores. Verbatim media is made by Mitsubishi and much easier to find.

 

[dawgtuff]

I'm using a NEC ND3550A burner and Nero 8 software. I bought a bunch of HP CD-R's, and Legacy 8x DVD-R's. I've had minor issues with volume dropout on the CD's, but that was before I started recording at slower speeds. Thanks for all the replies.

 

[flowrush]

no. Most bad burns are due to defective media. (aka a bad disk)

yes actually, slow burn's can make it easier to read on some reader's regardless of the media.

I have noticed this when burning cd's for my car's stock player. 4x is ideal if you want reliability.

If you want purely reliable media, then Cranberry DiamonDisc will outlast anything out there, but with a price tag to go with it.

 

[Antique]

A friend of mine told me that having a slower burn speed gives a higher success rate of burning and he believes that it will make your optical drive last much longer.