Re: drive speed

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Hi,

Burning speed is often related to the amount of resources available to the
system and the extraction rate of the media the files are being copied from.
For instance, if you are doing a CD to CD copy, the write speed will be
limited by the extraction rate of the drive that the original disk is in.
Keep in mind that the extraction rate and the read speed are not the same
thing. The drive may read at 32x, but extract data at a much lower rate.If
other programs or processes are running on the system, this will slow it
down even more to prevent buffer problems.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Scar" <NoBody@home> wrote in message
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> Few days ago I noticed my LG dvd burner (x12) is much slower.
> Using different brand's disks my max burning speed is x4 for dvd's and
> CD's x8.
> All disks are speed rated at least x8 for dvd , and x48 for cd's.
> What program should I use to test it ? Roxio 7.0 doesn't have any
> utilities to do it .
> I did not install any software lately , and didn't changed hardware set
> up.
>
> Thanks for any suggestion.
> Chuck
>


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