Ideal burn rate

Tessa · 01-07-11, 12:57 AM

Burner's and disc's are one of the few things left that "you get out of it what you paid for". If you have an old machine that's using 5400 rpm drives and only 1gb of RAM then things get a bit more important, with old machines with those level of specs I wouldn't burn anything faster than 24x cd, 1x dvd. It can be painful to pay for a spool of 25 dual layer Verbatim DVD + R's, though I have yet to coaster a Verbatim disc. Is it worth paying the extra $ for quality discs, imo there is no doubt. Though both my burners are capable of going faster, I never burn dvd's at more than 2x speed (which isn't too long of a wait really) and cd's at 40x.

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01-07-11, 12:57 AM	#9
Tessa Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CG 96 Posts: 861 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Burner's and disc's are one of the few things left that "you get out of it what you paid for". If you have an old machine that's using 5400 rpm drives and only 1gb of RAM then things get a bit more important, with old machines with those level of specs I wouldn't burn anything faster than 24x cd, 1x dvd. It can be painful to pay for a spool of 25 dual layer Verbatim DVD + R's, though I have yet to coaster a Verbatim disc. Is it worth paying the extra $ for quality discs, imo there is no doubt. Though both my burners are capable of going faster, I never burn dvd's at more than 2x speed (which isn't too long of a wait really) and cd's at 40x.