CD-RW on slower computer = Slower burning?

[Insthink]

Currently I have a tbird 1.6ghz 512 DDR that I use a lot of gaming, on the side I have an old p2-300 used for downloading over night (its a lot more quiet in my room), playing MP3 while playing, receiving ICQ and MSN while playing etc

My CD-RW is on my AMD. I was thinking that I should put it in my p2-300 so that I can BURN while playing =p but I wondered if the system would hold back my CD-RW


On the side note, my CD-RW is a LG CDR-8522B 12/10/32, so it burns at 12x and burns RW at 10x

ODDLY, the damn thing takes about 20mins to do a 700mb CD rom with HDD data with Nero... ODDLY AGAIN using CloneCD it burns 700mb ISO under 10 mins!!!

I dont know whats wrong with Nero, anyone knows?

[macklin01]

I'm not sure about Nero, but I can say this ...

I used to have a 8/4/32 CD-RW on my Pentium Pro 200 computer. Because the computer and its disk drives were so slow, it was difficult to feed data quickly enough to maintain a nonempty buffer during 8x writes. So, I had to slow the burn speeds down or make sure that all tasks were killed before writing a CD.

Using my newer 1.2 GHz computer with the same CD-RW, this is no longer the case (although I still avoid other tasks by the old habit. :rolleyes: ).

So, older computer have a much harder time feeding the data to the CD-writer at higher write speeds. Perhaps Nero adjusts the write speed to avoid an empty buffer (and a ruined CD) on your older computer?

-- Paul

[kaillum]

I've had a similar setup for a while now....

I've got my main rig (1.4 AXIA), a pII-266 as a dedicated burner and downloader, and a p200mmx as a proxy server.....

This means that I can use my main rig for games etc and have cd's burning/msn/downloading on my pII-266 with the p200 servin the network in the house....

works for me, and i've never had a bad burnt disk on my setup.... (mitsumi 24x12x40 cdrw & ATA100 7200rpm drive)

[JigPu]

Right now I have a 4/2/32 burner on my Cele466. I can't burn CD's at 4x unless I'm VERY carefull to have EVERYTHING turned off. 2X normaly works fine as long as I'm not using the computer.

So for an even faster burner on a slower computer, I wouldn't recomend it.... Though I think my burner is a little strange...

JigPu

[macklin01]

Originally posted by JigPu
Right now I have a 4/2/32 burner on my Cele466. I can't burn CD's at 4x unless I'm VERY carefull to have EVERYTHING turned off. 2X normaly works fine as long as I'm not using the computer.

So for an even faster burner on a slower computer, I wouldn't recomend it.... Though I think my burner is a little strange...

JigPu

That was exactly the same as on my PPro 200. When most programs were shut down and the more guilty of the background processes were switched off, 4x write worked pretty well (I rarely used rewriteable). If I were, for example, to play an MP3 or work on a massive word file with bitmaps, I would every now and then run into buffer underruns.

BTW, Nice jigglypuff. :) -- Paul

[Cooler666]

are you sure that you don't have the burner on the same IDE cable as the hard disk?

[macklin01]

Well, I don't have that computer anymore, but at the time, no I didn't have them sharing a channel. (But a good thing to bring up!!) -- Paul

[Insthink]

I dont get how my pentium couldnt feed enought the CDR

I have a LAN set and my p2-300 128mb can feed at about 6M seconds on a 100/mbs connection, which is faster than what a CDR writes