relationship between burning speed and success rate

[woo124]

Hi,

I came across one of posting by lufcfan, which I pasted below:
Also, today's modern disc dyes are made to perform better and be much more reliable when burned at their maximum write speed, and therefore slower burns on newer high speed media can cause problems. Burning slower is a bit of a mis-conception which is still with us from when recordable DVD media was in its infancy. Back then, it was true to burn slower, but nowadays it causes more problems by doing this.

Would you say the same thing is true for CD-Rs i.e. I should burn them at the max speed? The reason I'm asking is because I've been getting mixed results with both DVD-Rs and CD-Rs. I use Ritek G05 for DVD-Rs and Verbatim Data Life Plus for CD-Rs. I used to burn all the DVD-Rs at max speed. Mostly, it works OK. Occasionally, I get a bad copy that only works at lower speed. Sometimes, I get ones that only work at max speed. DVD-Rs seem OK at whatever speed for most parts.

As for CD-Rs, I think they seem to be more speed sensitive. When I burn at max speed, I get a lot of bad burns whereas I get better results with slower speed.

Has anybody noticed the relationship between burning speed and success rate for DVD-Rs as well as CD-Rs?

Thanks

[lufcfan]

Well, I always burn my DataLife PLUS discs at 52x and they always work great no matter what. But, then again, I have a Plextor Premium writer, so it should do the job at those speeds :) I think a lot of it depends on the writer - some aren't all that accurate when burning at full speed.

[Warlock]

I burn cd-r at 48x which is my max speed. Dvd's i burn at 8x using a dual layer LG burner. I agree with Lufcfan, It mostly depends on the writer although most new burners, even the cheap ones, wont burn at 1x or 2x.