High Speed CD-RW Media

[xane]

I have some blank CD-RW media labelled as "high speed" (8x/10x), can I use these in a standard 4x/6x speed drive ?

I'm having a lot of problems with my current unit, it worked fine in the other machine but even using different burning software it fails to format one of these ?

Thanks ?

 

[FuZor]

Yup, it just means if you had a 8x drive you could burn at that speed. Otherwise it will burn at the drives maximum. In your case 4x. Thats for CD-RW's, if they were CD-R's it would be 6x

Your problems are probably down to dodgy media, IE: The CD-RW's are a bit naff, ot f***ed if you want to get technical

My advice would be purchase some other brand of CD-RW. Should be a ok then

btw CD-R's are much better, but I get the feeling you want to do more than just burn to a CD once!

 

[FuZor]

Also what software are you using?

Nero is by far the best in my experience, although XP's built in software aint bad for simple CD's

 

[xane]

Ta, I was assuming anyway that "high speed" just meant it could go up to 10x, rather than "only 10x", just making sure.

BTW this is formatting a CD-RW so it can be used with drag-and-drop. I have had no problems copying or burning CD-Rs, I've always used EasyCD with that anyway.

I was using Adaptec DirectCD (with EasyCD 3.5), then I switched to Ahead InCD (with Nero 4.0), neither of them will format the CD-RW, it either times out or generates a coaster (although I couple I've managed to re-blank). I'm using the latest versions of all software I can (without actually buying some) and both the motherboard and CD-RW drive have the latest BIOS.

I'm going to switch the drive back into my other machine where it worked before and have another go, I suspect it may be the motherboard (Asus P3V4X) as I've had problems with USB on it as well, if it doesn't work in the other machine I can safely assume its the disks.

 

[FuZor]

sounds like you've got it covered! give us an update when you have changed comps

 

[xane]

Okay, changed over computers and still same problem, so its either the drive or the media. Then I found a spare blank CD-RW of another type (4x speed) and it formatted successfully back in the original machine, so problem solved.

Now I have six useless CD-RW

 

[Embattle]

I hate packet writing atm since it seems to be problematic although the Mount Rainer Standard will improve this, it's going to be called CD-MRW

 

[xane]

I've just done some searching for new CD-RW blanks and apparently my original assumptions hold, according to most the "high speed" CD-RW media can only be used in "high speed" drives !

For example: at Bigpockets

Traxdata High Speed CD-RW 10x. 80 Min, 700MB. (Singles)

A high speed CD-RW to go with today's higher speed CD Writers. This disc will hold 700MB of data (80 Minutes of audio) This disc is only for use with writers capable of Re Writing at 8x or 10x. With these well made reliable CD-RW's you can write and rewrite hundreds of times on the same disc. These discs are supplied in Jewel cases. Traxdata 10x CD-Rw @

(my italics) so there you go

 

[FuZor]

Strangeg Going at a slower speed should only improve quality especially music. How would this explain the fact that you can pop in a 10x CD-R and burn at 1X to acheve optimum music quality?

Also meh CD-Rs are 24x speed!!! but I have no problems on my 8x writer

Weird...

HANG ON... This could be because you are using CD-RW not CD-R !!!!

Maybe

 

[Wazzerphuk]

8-10k = high speed?

Fucking lol.

 

[FuZor]

Thats RW speed which is pretty fast!

 

[Embattle]

It's not bad....wow just wrote my first DVD, all 4.3GB of it

 

[FuZor]

lol

Takes meh 3 hours to copy and compress a complete DVD to a standard CD! I really must in invest in a DVD burner