- Jul 12, 2001
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for some reason i remember it taking about an hour, but recently its been taking about 3 hours per DVD, anyone have any suggestions on what i could check to see why its taking so long?
i did some tests on the dvd drive...
here is the first-
I did a test on my DVD drive using Performance Test program I found on www.download.com
well the DVD drive that came with my Dell 5100 Inspiron had stats of 2.2-2.3 Mbs per second while taking up 75-80% of the CPU
so I tried my once internal now external Sony DRU-500a which is connected via a USB port and it had stats of 2.6 Mbs per sec but only taking up 2.5-5% of the CPU
so the Sony external read faster while taking up 75% less CPU...
then i used nero and got this on reading 7.9 gig dvd
average read speed .92x, started at 1.71 and ended at 1.74x
cpu usage at 1x was 87%
seek times...random 111ms, 1/30 128ms...full 217ms
inreface burst rate = 1MB/s
i got an error when doing this test on my sony, so i will try again later
i did some tests on the dvd drive...
here is the first-
I did a test on my DVD drive using Performance Test program I found on www.download.com
well the DVD drive that came with my Dell 5100 Inspiron had stats of 2.2-2.3 Mbs per second while taking up 75-80% of the CPU
so I tried my once internal now external Sony DRU-500a which is connected via a USB port and it had stats of 2.6 Mbs per sec but only taking up 2.5-5% of the CPU
so the Sony external read faster while taking up 75% less CPU...
then i used nero and got this on reading 7.9 gig dvd
average read speed .92x, started at 1.71 and ended at 1.74x
cpu usage at 1x was 87%
seek times...random 111ms, 1/30 128ms...full 217ms
inreface burst rate = 1MB/s
i got an error when doing this test on my sony, so i will try again later