POLL: At What Speed Do You Burn Your CD's?

[Netopia]

While CD burners are rated now at speeds of up to 56X, I find that most of the time I burn mine at 24X regardless of the speed of the burner or the rating of the CD-R media. I do this because I've had some issues with CDs that I burned at higher speeds not being compatible with older machines... so in order to bypass having to burn twice sometimes, I just take an extra minute and burn a little slower.

This got me to wondering about other people. At what speed do YOU burn and what is your rational for doing so?

Joe

 

[StageLeft]

24X. It's all my burner can do and I wouldn't even pay $1 to upgrade it to anything faster.

 

[samgau]

24x on my main box... 48x on my other box.... can't recall the one on my laptop... 32x or something like that...

 

[JBT]

24X (max speed) on my laptop and ussually 12 X on the desktop even though it is a 16X burner. I'm not sure why I burn so slow mostly cause I hate getting coasters and I don't mind waiting the extra 45 seconds.

 

[FFactory0x]

24x on my lite-on i got 2.5 years ago. Wont spend anymore money to upgrade to faster

 

[Turkish]

I got a 52x drive but i have no idea how to burn at 52x?

I usually burn at 40x. My Cd-rs are 48x.

 

[Quixfire]

16x is as fast as my drive will burn a CD. I don't feel that I need anything faster.

 

[Reliant]

24x

 

[ThePresence]

My drive is 52x, but for some reason it only burns at 32x.

 

[BillGates]

52x on my Plextor 52x. Never burned a coaster. Burn any slower out of fear of problems and you're just wasting your time - or your drive/media sucks.

 

[bunker]

48x using 48x media. Haven't made a coaster yet (Optorite drive)

EDIT: Ooooh...cool post count .

 

[CraigRT]

40X with my Plextor PX708A

(will have it tomorrow LOL)

 

[randomlinh]

16x.. I'm paranoid about burning at higher speeds. #1, my car doesn't like it, #2, i've had issues trying to re-read data... and #3, my A06 only burns that fast

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Xiety
I got a 52x drive but i have no idea how to burn at 52x?

I usually burn at 40x. My Cd-rs are 48x.

Cept I do know how to burn at 52. Got too many coasters at 48

 

[Blayze]

12x on my Plextor 12/10/32A

 

[FuZoR]

whatever the highest burn rate nero allows me.. usually 52x on good brand cdrs and on cheapo crap it gives me 16-32x

 

[bandana163]

24-32X.

 

[Insane3D]

48X or 52X depending on the media used. All of my Verbatim 48X CD-R's work fine @ 52X, and work in the car head unit as well as anything else I use them in. $35 for a 52X32X52 was too sweet to pass up.

 

[FrustratedUser]

10x is the fastest mine can co.

 

[Tetsuo]

48x

 

[GTaudiophile]

I have a two-year-old Plextor 16/10/40A, so I can burn at a max of 16x. I can usually burn an entire CD in 4-6 minutes.

That's plenty fast for me.

 

[kalster]

40x on my lite on 411s dvd +-rw

 

[boyRacer]

44x

 

[LordJezo]

Mine can do 40x but people with old drives cant read those cds when I burn them that fast.

I just do 8x now since it is the slowest my drive can do and seems to be the most compatiable.

 

[marquee]

4x.. i have a really old plextor 8x burner, but ever since i changed to windows xp, it would crap out on me when i tried to burn at 8x.

8-10 minutes a cd.. think its time for upgrade?