How long should it take to burn a game
 

How long should it take. It seems like it is taking me an awful long time to burn a simple game with safedisc 1.

when i burnt tiberian sun with safedisk it took about 25mins all up
read:40
Write:16

it could noway take 25 mins with 16 write speed......NO WAY

Writing will be as fast as usual. Reading will be slower than normal cd's due to the protection. How slow depends on what drive you use to read.

i was talking only about the writing....

well m8 that depends on the speed of your writer :)
1x = 150 KB/s

So let's say you've a 16x burner. A 700 MB cd would take you about: 700 x 1024 / 16 x 150 / 60 = 5 minutes

well,i burn with 8x speed and it takes about 10 mins...

It was between 20-25 all together not just burning

what speed burning and reading???

well that would prove my calculation then ha :D
16x = 5 min
8x = 10 min

yeah,that's right....

I have an asus 52x cd-rom. I have a plex 24/10/40a. I burnt Maxt Payne with safedisc 2 and it took an hour and a half. I burnt the Sims and it took as long with only safedisc 1. I burnt an old game with nothing and it took 3 minutes. An hour and a half seems like a long time. Is it and if so don't just tell me, tell me how to fix it. Thanks guys
:)

oh i am also burning on the fly and using the settings in clonyxxl. What I have burned works fine. But really slow.

I have burner and cd-rom drive on same ide channel. I think that could be the problem. Would my harddrive be slowed down if I put it on the samw channel as the burner?

first of all,what makes the procedure last for so long is the reading not the writing part.......


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