Well I was always a firm believer in burning no greater than 2x on most stuff 4x if I didnt really care.

Well a few months ago my burner died, the one I have now, the burning software I use no longer gives me the 2x choice.

I have all these divx movies to burn, I burned one at 8x, when playing, scanning ahead and back ect. it drags and has to catch up, then I burned it at 20x, same software, media, settings, and the 20x plays perfect, no drag what so ever.

This is something I've sought the answer for for some time now, I read a few articles, my only explaination for it is that the burner is rated at 20x max, and when used with 20x or greater certified media, it performs best.

I would love to hear from others, one thier exp. with this, technical dat ect. and opions.
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I burn with a yamaha scsi 6x and rarely coaster any cd's. I can still do other things while my cd is burning to and not worry about buffer underruns.

I just switched about a month ago from a 4x writer to a 24x writer and burn now at the max 24x without a hitch.

harry, how many times must i tell you that when u burn with a scsi writer it won't give u underruns? (joking)

scsi writer is taken care of by the scsi ctrl, hence separate processing power.

just got myself a new TDK Cyclone 48x24x48 writer. already done a lot of burning.
what i have encountered is that although it is capable of 48x, it is not always recommended to burn at 48x, cos sometimes when u bring the burned media to another cd-rom drive, it may not be able to read the media.

this would depends on the quality of the media and the burning mechanism of the writer. if the media isn't og good quality, the cutting during burning maynot be that good and hence may cause errors when reading.

so i always burn at 16x speed (although i can 48x). and so far no problems encountered........
just tout that i would share with u guys...

I usually burn at 1x or 2x. I am in no hurry since I don't burn too often and I get the best results at sllooowwww speeds.

I have a Acer 16x10x40 and I find that the best recording speed for it is 6. I have used the maximum speed but the saving in time is usualy minimal.

I usually burn at 12x, the maximum speed possible on my writer.

But I tend to find that it all depends on the quality of the media that I use, for the cheap ones I use a slow write speed and vice versa.

I usually burn on 16x ordinary copy but if the files or CD that I want to copy is important I usually burn at 8x.

I have a 12x and usually burn at 8x or 10x. I agree that it also depends on the type of media as well. If I'm using a crappy generic disk, there's always more room for errors than if I'm burning with a nice Verbatim.

I have a LiteOn 24x now and how I use it depends on what I am copying. If I am burning MP3 to CDA for a regular audio player, I burn slower. Like maybe 16 or 12X. For MP3 library disks I just let it blast at 24X. Computer cd drives are way better that consumer CD readers anyway. Most times I just let it burn at max though. I've never had a problem that could not be traced to poor or low quality blanks and it has not been all that often either.



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