I was told this model would burn CDs at the slowest available write-speeds, but the minimum I get with Taiyo Yuden blanks is 16x. What's with this?
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As for the highest speed for CD burning, both the burner and burning software may have to support that specific speed. However, as far as I know, for the lowest speed burning, there is no limit on the burner and you can select a typical low speed that you want on your burning software. I also usually burn important CDs with equal or less than 8 speed and sometimes 4 and even 2. I am currently using the Nero Burning ROM software and PX-891SAW and had no problem in burning CDs below 8 speed. It is likely that the '16X' speed written on the Taiyo Yuden blank CD may be the recommended fastest speed for burning and not the lowest speed.
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I would never burn at the lowest speeds as this gives poor results. Burn at middle speed for best results.
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first of all i dont see sense of wiriting slower, most of all modern players have perfect compatibility playing cd-r discs no matter the speed they was burn it, why you are interested in slower speeds than 16x? may you thinking slower speed improve better results and better playback of the disc?, well if this is your matter, plaxtors drives writes great and perfect even at the maximum speeds!,with perfect results and taiyo discs dont need to burn slower than 16 x because they may be made to writes from 16x and over w perfect playbacks, so if you are getting trouble playing discs try using another software like roxio, or try play the discs in another player. first of all i dont see sense of wiriting slower, most of all modern players have perfect compatibility playing cd-r discs no matter the speed they was burn it, why you are interested in slower speeds than 16x? may you thinking slower speed improve better results and better playback of the disc?, well if this is your matter, plaxtors drives writes great and perfect even at the maximum speeds!,with perfect results and taiyo discs dont need to burn slower than 16 x because they may be made to writes from 16x and over w perfect playbacks, so if you are getting trouble playing discs try using... » Read More first of all i dont see sense of wiriting slower, most of all modern players have perfect compatibility playing cd-r discs no matter the speed they was burn it, why you are interested in slower speeds than 16x? may you thinking slower speed improve better results and better playback of the disc?, well if this is your matter, plaxtors drives writes great and perfect even at the maximum speeds!,with perfect results and taiyo discs dont need to burn slower than 16 x because they may be made to writes from 16x and over w perfect playbacks, so if you are getting trouble playing discs try using another software like roxio, or try play the discs in another player. « Show Less
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I have not had any problems with this unit at any speed. I use Memorex & Verbatim CD & DVD blanksUsing Windows 7x64 on Asus Z97- Pro MB, Intel i7 4790k CPU with 16 G memoryI have had no experience with Taiyo Yuden blanks
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As for the highest speed for CD burning, both the burner and burning software may have to support that specific speed. However, as far as I know, for the lowest speed burning, there is no limit on the burner and you can select a typical low speed that you want on your burning software. I also usually burn important CDs with equal or less than ×8 speed and sometimes ×4 and even ×2. I am currently using the Nero Burning ROM software and PX-891SAW and had no problem in burning CDs below ×8 speed. It is likely that the '16X' speed written on the Taiyo Yuden blank CD may be the recommended fastest speed for burning and not the lowest speed. As for the highest speed for CD burning, both the burner and burning software may have to support that specific speed. However, as far as I know, for the lowest speed burning, there is no limit on the burner and you can select a typical low speed that you want on your burning software. I also usually burn important CDs with equal or less than ×8 speed and sometimes ×4 and even ×2. I am currently using the Nero Burning ROM software and PX-891SAW and had no problem in burning CDs below ×8 speed. It is likely that the '16X' speed written on the Taiyo Yuden blank CD may be the recommended... » Read More As for the highest speed for CD burning, both the burner and burning software may have to support that specific speed. However, as far as I know, for the lowest speed burning, there is no limit on the burner and you can select a typical low speed that you want on your burning software. I also usually burn important CDs with equal or less than ×8 speed and sometimes ×4 and even ×2. I am currently using the Nero Burning ROM software and PX-891SAW and had no problem in burning CDs below ×8 speed. It is likely that the '16X' speed written on the Taiyo Yuden blank CD may be the recommended fastest speed for burning and not the lowest speed. « Show Less
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Well, I have a test tool, that shows 233.7MB/s write and 319.0MB/s read with a SSD drive in an USB 3 enclosure via an iogear USB3 hub.Most USB sticks, or SD cards are way slower than this.The USB3 hub disconnects, when Yosemite goes to sleep. Then via eSata it copies 1.4GB in less than 5s to my backup drive, not sure, if my drive is a bottleneck, but I am happy with the speeds.
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Using a Crucial 512gb mSATA is am getting ~450MB/s+ Write and over 500MB/s read. This is on a late 2013 rMBP. Tests were done with BlackMajic Dist Speed test in OSX. In bootcamp with CDM I am getting about the same numbers. Yes it is getting very very hot! Not sure what to make of that either. Seems to work fine.
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Sony CD's work very well. As long as the CD's say MUSIC (as in CD-R music) and have a purple wrapping label, they work very well, much better than any other brand. I even record them on my 1999 Gateway computer instead of my new computer. Also, if you record the songs at the SLOWEST POSSIBLE SPEED, they will record much better and be usable on many more types of players. All newer things are made for MORE SPEED, and don't work nearly as well as a slower speed. I don't like the way my new computer records songs so I use my antique computer. My 1999 computer has a place to record a CD and another place to play a CD. Newer computers only have one place to RECORD & PLAY a CD. Like everything else, older stuff is much better than new stuff, (be it cars, computers, or anything else). On my 1999 computer I can do so many more things working on a project than I can on my new computer, it is HARD TO BELIEVE. My 1999 HP all-in one printer is also much better than my new HP all-in-one printer. The only thing better on my new computer that is better is SPEED, not what it can do. I have tried all brands of CD's and "SONY CD-R music" CD's are by far the best in quality, what types of players they're played in, and how long they last. My CD's are recorded on my computer and work very well in my 1995 Trans Am, 2005 Bonneville GXP, either one of my 2 CD players in my Stereo, and in both my 1999 computer and my new computer. Memorex is about the only CD that you can buy in all stores anymore and they are not very good in quality or how long they last. SONY IS THE BEST.
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I highly recommend 4x speed for burning xbox games with these discs. it all varys on your burner as well cause these have the capability to burn 8x but never do 8x or it will cause errors in burning the discThanks,AUSTIN
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Hello Alex, Even with slower class 4 SD card still generated fast enough transfer rate (read/write) to play back a HD video. The one I used is SanDisk ultra 64GB class 10 I bought it from amazon, it work just fine. I have noted that way back when I downloaded more than a dozen of free apps from google play store based on rating and testing them to see which one work best and found out that many media (video) player program are in premature development stage, their playback are sluggish and freezing all the time, few others are just ok because they are too simple and lacks of features, but the only one I am interested is the MX player, my search ended and this MX player is the only one I using today on my Samsung s3 cellphone and my new Samsung tab 3 I just bought from amazon. regardless HD or SD the playback is flawlessly with this MX player. I think before you spend more money for faster SD card may be you should download and try this MX player to see if the poor video playback problem solved if not then switch to faster class10 SD memory card. Remember after you download and open the player for the first time, it may prompt to download CODE for the MX player to work properly. Once the player open, select a file you want to play them then go-to setting by select tool/setting/decoder and place check marks on all those check box that uses H/W+ decoder, then you are done and all of your video now should playback smoothly. By the way I had been using this MX player for the past 2 plus years until today. I hope this help and good luck!
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I have been using DIGISTOR BD-R White printable discs (25GB). I have burned videos on about 35 discs & have not had a failure to date. Interesting enough, Digistor brand was the least expensive Blu-ray disc at the time of my purchase. Hope this helps.
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My experience is that if you try to burn digital media at the quoted maximum speed, you are probably pushing the limits of the manufacturer's quality control standards, especially if your burner came from a different manufacturer. I back off a little, so I'm burning 16X discs at 12X recording speed. Doing that, I've been able to get 100% success rate with about 8 spindles of this particular media.
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In my experience, the drive has been great - I've been using it to burn DVDs/BD-Rs & it can be used for 3D playback so long as you have software that supports it. Is this the best drive on the market? No - some pricier drives have extra features, such as HD upscaling for DVDs (which I think is useless, btw). Is it the best drive under $100? Yeah, in my opinion, it is. In regards to write speed, it depends on the type of media: 16X is the fastest write speed for BD-R, 24X for DVD-R (but that speed is only available in DVD drives - the fastest DVD-R speed available on a BD drive is 16X), & 48X for CD-R. The -DL, -RW, & -RAM variants always have lower speeds. However, as the other answer mentions, the fastest BD-R discs currently available have a maximum write speed of 6X. In terms of read speed: the BD-R read speed may not be the best (12X), but it's plenty. It's faster than needed for BluRay playback & fine for the BD rips that I've done.
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I wrote a non-techie review of my 64g and 128g. I compared writing 37.3 gig of data - the San Disk disk took 5:55 minutes for the 64g and 5:50 for the 128g. The other 2 (not cheapies) took between 25 and 36 minites. All were done with the same source data on the same computer using the same USB3 port. They were all USB 3 drives. Not sure what the specs are, SanDisk has them on their website, but I can tell you it is faster than any of the others out there except maybe the Lexar and the price on those is much higher.
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As long as your computer uses SATA connections it should be compatible. It says it burns at 24 X speed. It does not have lightscribe which allows you to print labels directly to the CD/DVD, using discs that are made for lightscribe. As I said in my review I found this drive to be extremely noisy and was not impressed at all with it. You might want to consider another drive. Any cd/dvd with a sata connection should work, and if you're not using the lightscribe why pay extra for it.
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I'm afraid I don't quite understand the question. I have used this to record Blu-Ray disks with no difficulty without having to modify the recording other than to choose the recording speed which I set at slow. Sorry I can't help more - but I am very pleased with this unit. No troubles of any kind as opposed to others I've had.
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Unfortunately non-software that I have can test it and the hardware itself does not seems to be different physically but I will recommend it as it works good for burning at 6x and the time was 16 min as expected for this device class and if an optical go up from 16x then you maybe need SATA3 but currently it seems does not applies [16× 576 Mbit/s 72 MB/s] because SATA 2 3Gb/s is good up to ~ 290MB/s read and write vs. 6Gb/s is good up to ~ 600mb/s read / write. OS Driver Description - ASUS BW-16D1HT SCSI Cd-Rom Device. So I just hope this information help you to decide.
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Yeah, I use them for burning lossless, both from CD's, LP's and online digital sources. Don't know if they're an advantage over other CD-R's, but VERBATIM is my CD-R of choice. I sometimes use MAXELL, but not SONY ( alot of "propritory" problems with my equipment.). And, yes, you could call it a "hipster" thing......I'm a product of the '50's~'60's generation!!!
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This device is a writer, not a reader. If you are intending to read (as in, watch) BluRays, this isn't the device for you. If, however, what you intend to do is backup your data files to BluRay format, you want this. I cannot provide the actual write speed data for this device, but on USB 3, my experience is that it is fairly fast, determined of course by the amount and type of data you are writing.
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This is what I've been led to believe by the techie stuff I've read. The designation 1x - 52x tells you that the CD-R is compatible with any CD player or recorder that reads or records up to 52x speed. In other words if you have an old clunker that only records at 1x speed (I can't imagine one of those still being around) it will work with that recorder. Your 12x CD-R should work in your faster CD ROM but they will record at a slower speed than a 52x. Sometimes you may wish to record at a slower speed if you are having trouble getting a good recording at the higher speed. Your 1x - 52x CD-R allows you to do that by changing the setting of your recording software to a slower recording speed. Hope this helps. Maybe someone with more precise understanding of this can chime in too.
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Mine just arrived 03/08/14 and are MCC made in Taiwan. These are great discs. Some of the best I've ever had. I always have good performance with Verbatim no matter where they are made. Much better than recently produced Taiyo Yuden. I've never had a Verbatim media fail in over 18 years of cd-r burning and 11 years of dvd-r burning (I've had some coasters of UAE produced non-Datalifeplus Verbatim but I've also had Taiyo Yuden coasters but never a failure of disc that would burn). And I don't even store them in controlled environments. I have had some failures of Memorex media though. Verbatim is still the best in my opinion. Mine just arrived 03/08/14 and are MCC made in Taiwan. These are great discs. Some of the best I've ever had. I always have good performance with Verbatim no matter where they are made. Much better than recently produced Taiyo Yuden. I've never had a Verbatim media fail in over 18 years of cd-r burning and 11 years of dvd-r burning (I've had some coasters of UAE produced non-Datalifeplus Verbatim but I've also had Taiyo Yuden coasters but never a failure of disc that would burn). And I don't even store them in controlled environments. I have had some failures of Memorex media though.... » Read More Mine just arrived 03/08/14 and are MCC made in Taiwan. These are great discs. Some of the best I've ever had. I always have good performance with Verbatim no matter where they are made. Much better than recently produced Taiyo Yuden. I've never had a Verbatim media fail in over 18 years of cd-r burning and 11 years of dvd-r burning (I've had some coasters of UAE produced non-Datalifeplus Verbatim but I've also had Taiyo Yuden coasters but never a failure of disc that would burn). And I don't even store them in controlled environments. I have had some failures of Memorex media though. Verbatim is still the best in my opinion. « Show Less