How long should it take to burn a CD?

[flylikeaneagle]

Purchased a new Cendyne 24X drive and placed it in my PIII 667 system wth 256 Megs of Ram 50X CD ROM
I can create a 700 Meg cd from my hard drive in about 7 minutes, and burned an 23 track Audio Cd which took 14 minutes.
I am dissapointed with results. I am using 16X media and not sure if that has anyhing to do with it or not. I am using NER0 5.5 and telling it to burn at 24X but I am not sure if it is or not?

Any suggestions?

 

[Bovinicus]

For an 8x writer, about 10 minutes. For a 16x writer, about 5. You get the idea.

 

[JohnnyPC]

I don't burn too many Music CDs but When I do I'm always amazed at how much longer they take. I can burn a 700 Meg data CD in about 4.5 minutes with my 12x...If I remember correctly...over the weekend I burned a 12 track audio CD and it semed to take about 10 minutes. Can't tell you xactly since I walked away and came back...23 tracks is a bunch of music...

 

[toadstool]

Hmm....that does seem a bit slow. I have a 16x10x32 cdwriter I got for $40 during those "after thanksgiving " sales.

It takes me 3 minutes...4 at most to burn a cd. Music cds take the same amount of time.

Are you using "fast copy" on the Nero cd?


I have recently burned copies of .....

1)Windows 98
2) A copy of a "Stone Temple Pilots" cd.


They both were copied in around 3 minutes.

 

[randomlinh]

all my full cd burns (700mb) on my 24x liteon have been in the ~4:30 range.. using 16x media. crappy media burned too, but later found to be not too reliable. Are all your dma settings correct? How exactly is your setup?

 

[flylikeaneagle]

<< all my full cd burns (700mb) on my 24x liteon have been in the ~4:30 range.. using 16x media. crappy media burned too, but later found to be not too reliable. Are all your dma settings correct? How exactly is your setup? >>



Hard drive is on ide 0 master and 50X CD ROM ID0 Slave
24X Burner is on ide 1 Master and Zip100 is slave

have not set up any dma settings....

 

[schdaddy]

i would make a data CD from the HD first to get a better idea of how fast/slow your CDRW is

my DVD is horrible for copying any type of CDs & i notice a big difference in speed between CD to CDRW & HD to CDRW

 

[flylikeaneagle]

<< i would make a data CD from the HD first to get a better idea of how fast/slow your CDRW is

my DVD is horrible for copying any type of CDs & i notice a big difference in speed between CD to CDRW & HD to CDRW >>




Like I stated in my original post, I have burned a data CD from my hard drive and it is a full 700 megs and it takes over 7 minutes, which seems really slow to me.

 

[databyss]

A possible problem might be because you have the CD Rom drive your copying the Music CD from on the same IDE cable as your HD

if it uses your HD as a buffer, which i'm pretty sure that Nero does, they you slowing down the IDE 0 by acessing the CD Rom drive at the same time.

 

[schdaddy]

<<

<< i would make a data CD from the HD first to get a better idea of how fast/slow your CDRW is

my DVD is horrible for copying any type of CDs & i notice a big difference in speed between CD to CDRW & HD to CDRW >>




Like I stated in my original post, I have burned a data CD from my hard drive and it is a full 700 megs and it takes over 7 minutes, which seems really slow to me. >>



lol, sorry i guess i'm still a little brain dead from new years

since you're using 16x media your 7min data burn sounds about right
what OS are you on? and did you check your DMA settings they're in SYSTEM PROPERTIES (under CDROM in Win9x/ME; under HD controllers in W2k/XP)

 

[flylikeaneagle]

lol, sorry i guess i'm still a little brain dead from new years

since you're using 16x media your 7min data burn sounds about right
what OS are you on? and did you check your DMA settings they're in SYSTEM PROPERTIES (under CDROM in Win9x/ME; under HD controllers in W2k/XP)[/i] >>




Thanks for the specific information,
I made the change from control panel and now can burn a 700 MB data cd in 4 minutes...
Thanks

 

[databyss]

What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning on DMA for the drives?