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Why are my DVD drives slow?
I have a Dell computer with an Intel E8200 cpu, 2 GB of RAM, running
Vista Home Premium. It has a Philips/Benq DH-16W1S 16X DVD writer, and a ASUS E616A3T 16X DVD-ROM drive. They are both SATA and plugged directly into the motherboard, each one into its own SATA channel. I just took a DVD+R disc with 3.84 GB of data on it, and put it into the ASUS drive, and then copied all the files onto the hard drive. It took 450 seconds, which is a transfer rate of 8.5 MB/s. So that means the read speed of the ASUS drive is a little over 6X, even though it's supposed to be a 16X drive. Then I burned the 3.84 GB of data from the hard drive onto a 16X Verbatim DVD-R disc. It took 315 seconds, which is a transfer rate of 12.2 MB/s. That means the write speed of the Philips/Benq drive is a little over 8X, even though it's supposed to be a 16X drive. Any idea why both of the drives seem slow? |
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Why are my DVD drives slow?
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... I have a Dell computer with an Intel E8200 cpu, 2 GB of RAM, running Vista Home Premium. It has a Philips/Benq DH-16W1S 16X DVD writer, and a ASUS E616A3T 16X DVD-ROM drive. They are both SATA and plugged directly into the motherboard, each one into its own SATA channel. I just took a DVD+R disc with 3.84 GB of data on it, and put it into the ASUS drive, and then copied all the files onto the hard drive. It took 450 seconds, which is a transfer rate of 8.5 MB/s. So that means the read speed of the ASUS drive is a little over 6X, even though it's supposed to be a 16X drive. Then I burned the 3.84 GB of data from the hard drive onto a 16X Verbatim DVD-R disc. It took 315 seconds, which is a transfer rate of 12.2 MB/s. That means the write speed of the Philips/Benq drive is a little over 8X, even though it's supposed to be a 16X drive. Any idea why both of the drives seem slow? I suspect that you have been sucked in by marketting - the 16x is probably read speed at the fastest part of the drive and the write speed is probably significantly lower. Normally drives are quoted with a read speed and a write speed, but obviously for sales, they only quote the fastest number in the name. |
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