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    My DVD burner burns DVD's at 4x and CD's at 16x max. Why so??

    Discussion in 'HP' started by prabhg, Oct 12, 2008.

  1. prabhg

    prabhg Notebook Evangelist

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    I have "Toshiba DVDW/HD TS-L802A ATA" HD-DVD capable DVD/CD-RW drive in my notebook running clean install of Vista Ultimate. The memorex CD-R and DVD-R's I am using, are capable of handling 52x and 16x max burn speeds respectively. But my drive only burns them at 16x and 4x respectively. I tried burning using Nero 7 and Active-ISO softwares with same results. What could be the reason for this slow burn speeds?
    I understand slow burns are better and more accurate. Also, that the max burn speed depends on the hardware's max rotational speed and also firmware being used. My notebook is about 6 months old, so I am sure, hardware wise, I should have a pretty recent drive that should be capable of burning at higher speeds, but how do I check if the firmware is up-to-date and what is the max burn speed my drive can handle??
    Thanks for help guys.
     
    prabhg, Oct 12, 2008
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  2. flipfire

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    Have you tried using Nero Testdrive?
     
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  3. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    According to the specs for your drive those write speeds are the maximum supported.

    Read:
    HD DVD: 1x; DVD: Max. 8x; CD: Max. 24x

    Write:
    DVD-RAM: Max. 3x; DVD-R SL: Max. 4x
    DVD-R DL: Max. 2.4x; DVD-RW: Max. 4x
    DVD+R SL: Max. 4x; DVD+R DL: Max. 2.4x
    DVD+RW: Max. 4x; CD-R: Max. 16x
    CD-RW: 4x; High Speed CD-RW: Max. 10x
    Ultra Speed CD-RW: 10x

    Source
     
    usapatriot, Oct 12, 2008
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  4. prabhg

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    ****!! Is HP not using up to date faster drivers, or this is the way it has to be?
     
    prabhg, Oct 12, 2008
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    Its the drive itself... If HD-dvd is slow, so will DVD/CD
     
    flipfire, Oct 12, 2008
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    Yea, I had those speeds with my old HD-DVD on my dv6700t. But my dv5t Blu-Ray Drive writes DVDs at 8x, but CDs are still limited to 16x, which is fine.
     
    sendmarksmail, Oct 12, 2008
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