How fast is 16x dvd

In addition, write quality is an issue at high recording speeds. Since the laser burns pits into the recording surface, it is increasingly difficult to ensure proper recording accuracy given that vibration increases dramatically at high-RPM speeds. Since prices for external hard drives and USB sticks have fallen quite a bit, we decided to leave rewriteable media out of this analysis. Current page: Read And Write Speeds. Read And Write Speeds Faster speed means better performance, and better performance typically translates into time savings when ripping multimedia off a disc to your hard drive or onto another disc.

In this forum most people talk about speeds up to 16x like being almost a mainstream. Mosr CDRW burners produce the highest burn quality at 32x or even 40x. With the possible exception of 16x media, which often burns better at 12x in most drives. All of this is dependand on the specific combination of drive and media.

But there has never been any generalized advantage to burning slower. When you view some of the disc quality scans of media burned at high speed you realise just how good a burn is being produced. If you tried to burn a quality media - eg. Thanks for your replies. The 16x DVD-Rs are written at a rate of The process is shorter than a 4x DVD-R and only takes 5.

The quality and speed of the DVD-R disc is impacted by the model of burner as well. A low quality burner may inhibit the speed of the DVD-R disc and it may not write data as quickly. I wanted to check because I was afraid that Verbatim wouldn't clearly show the difference between the brands, but they do, so I know now what NOT to look for. Should I burn the new discs at 12x? I use ImgBurn , I assume it will only list the burning speeds permitted by my Samsung burner firmware?

I always buy 16x rated good Verbatim SL blanks. The slowest I'd burn them is at 8x but I also burn at 12x, 16x, and even up to 22x although that's when the consistency can drop. It depends on the situation.

I prefer to stay at or below the disc rating when it comes to 16x rated blank. Personally, I would never burn a reliable brand 16x rated disc slower than 8x. If I was going to burn at 4x then I'd just buy 8x rated blanks and save a little money. For what it's worth, I NEVER burn a DVD any faster than 4x unless it's a copy for someone else, they're not paying me anything for the copy or my time to make it, and I simply do not have time to wait for a slower burn. My test that I mentioned earlier showed me conclusively that burn errors go up with speed of burn, even on top grade media.

I can wait for the burn to finish at a lower speed. The subject of burn speed is controversial and I burn slower than most people but then again I seem to have a lot more patience than most people. Plus, I don't have only computer at home, so it's easy for me to have one PC tied up doing this.

Yes, ImgBurn will show the burning speeds possible for your media using that burner. Thanks once again, everyone! Originally Posted by jman Here's my take on it. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that dyes can be optimised for burning at different speeds. Anyone remember when faster burners were only just becoming common place and often discs would be labelled with something like "only suitable for use with a high speed burner"?

Burners don't burn a disc the same way regardless of speed. The laser has to heat the disc so the burner changes the laser strength as it burns etc, so there's nothing to say it can't burn just as well at a faster speed. To my way of thinking the only rule is there isn't a rule.

Some burners burn one brand of disc better than other burners. I have Pioneer burner which struggled to burn a Verbatim disc at any speed when I bought it. The quality was just terrible. A firmware upgrade later and it does a very good job, even at 20x. The rated burning speed of burners is a massive case of misleading advertising. No burner burns the whole disc at one speed, they start off slow and ramp up the speed as the burn progresses.

Just because you pick 16x doesn't mean the disc is being burned at 16x. That's just the maximum speed which will be achieved if you fill the entire disc. I've got one burner which is only marginally faster at 16x than another burner is at 12x because the first burner takes a little longer to ramp up the speed than the second, so it's in fact burning at least some of the disc slower at 16x than the second burner is at 12x. Anyway, I've owned several different burners over the years, burned hundreds and hundreds of discs and I've run hundreds of burn quality tests.

As a result, I only use Verbatim discs the good ones with the Azo dye and I settled on Pioneer burners.