NEC 3500a takes 4 minutes to burn a CD at 40x

[Gotham33]

thoughts? should i return the drive for a new one?

 

[ed21x]

yeah, it's usually suppose to be about half the time. However, on certain CD's that are a bit *harder* to copy, the CDRW rips and writes at a slower speed.

 

[Anubis]

umm thats about right, nothing wrong there, the burner isnt actually buring at 40x the whole time, it cant on the inner 2/3 of teh CD because it cant spin it fast enough

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Anubis
umm thats about right, nothing wrong there, the burner isnt actually buring at 40x the whole time, it cant on the inner 2/3 of teh CD because it cant spin it fast enough

Not to mention that the lead-in and lead-out still take a fair amount of time.

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Anubis
umm thats about right, nothing wrong there, the burner isnt actually buring at 40x the whole time, it cant on the inner 2/3 of teh CD because it cant spin it fast enough

Not to mention that the lead-in and lead-out still take a fair amount of time.

added to the fact it may be verifying the write BTA that may take it longer...

 

[PhoenixOrion]

...and maybe additional filters and settings that you might have enabled with the burner software = affect total burn time.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

4 minutes? That is unacceptable. Return it, at those speeds it should burn in a minute or less!!!!!!!!

 

[Andres3605]

i just remmenber the days of 2x - 5x burners ......

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Andres3605
i just remmenber the days of 2x - 5x burners ......

yea i remember thoes. almost as bad a 1x DVD burners that take 50min to burn a DVD,

 

[Gotham33]

guys i had a regular CD-RW (it's now in my other computer). It took 2 minutes to burn a CD at 40x.

 

[ed21x]

i guess for me, my experience has always been with plextor, and their insanely fast spin up time- it would usually take about 3 minutes when burning from an image on the HD.

 

[dajo]

Make sure UDMA is enabled. How you check depends on the OS. For XP/Win2K, it's in Device Manager/IDE Ata/Atapi controllers/channel (primary/secondary)/properties/advanced.

That kind of performance can occur if your transfer mode is not set to "DMA if available".

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Gotham33
guys i had a regular CD-RW (it's now in my other computer). It took 2 minutes to burn a CD at 40x.

Uh, no. 40X max burners average maybe 30-35X, which is about 2:15-2:30 to burn a 74-minute disc. You might hit 2 minutes if it was really running at 48X or 52X max. It also needs to burn the TOC and finalize the session, which usually adds another minute or so.

Are you using the same software and settings? It shouldn't take much more than 2:30-3:00 to burn a 74-minute disc at 40x (at least the actual 'burning the data' part), but some packages are a little slower, or it might have defaulted to verifying the disc or something like that.

 

[Imdmn04]

Originally posted by: Gotham33
guys i had a regular CD-RW (it's now in my other computer). It took 2 minutes to burn a CD at 40x.

BS, fastest burner at 52x can only do a full 700mb cd at around 2:40 ish.

Were you previsouly burning a full 700mb CD?

4mins is the norm for 40x, are you in that much of a hurry?