| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 25 Jun 2001 at 22:15:25 |
| Subject: | Re: Plextor Review In #22 |
Sam Thomas said,
> So then since that worked ok I made a backup of my work partition - 78megs
> of data - this took about 25minutes (I accepted this cos I still aint set
> MakeCD up and reported about 13x write again)
The slowest part of this operation is often creating the image data, try
making an image file first.
> Finally, a bloke at work wanted a copy of my MP3's so there I went and wrote
> 650 megs of data to a CDR - 1HOUR and 15Minutes later it finally finished
> writing the disk :-( (and this time reported a write speed of 14.2x (this
> aint the source of buffer one I'm reading btw, it is the write one))
The speed to read is the first buffer, since that shows the speed you
are reading data from the source. You can never write faster than that
for longer than the buffer lasts. Were you writing those MP3s as files
or as audio tracks. without a PPC, I'd expect writing MP3 as audio to
take a while.
> So what I want to know, is there any specific settings to do since it is a
> burnproof drive regarding the MakeCD buffers? (I have the tooltype)
Set the Write buffer as large as you can, but don't set it so high that
other operations have to use Chip RAM. Say 10-20MB less than you have
free after starting MakeCD.
Cheers
Neil
Yeah, but what's the speed of dark?
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