CloneDVD Too Long?
 

So I've been using the CloneDvd and AnyDVD combo for a long time succesfully. Backing up a full DVD usually takes around 40 min (reading & writing) but ever since I got my new computer, the process has lengthened to over an hour for reasons unknown.

The specs on my new PC are:

P4 3.4 ghz
1gb DDR2
ATI x800xt
160gb SATA w/ NCQ
Pioneer A06
16x DVD-ROM

Any suggestions on why it takes so long to backup a DVD, and how to shorten the process? Thanks in advance.

I think its the drive. I have 2 drives and my speed varies depending on which one I use to read. It takes me about 25 minutes on my pioneer dvd rom 12x and maybe about 35 minutes if I use my plextor writer 12x dvd+r which should read about 16x. I know for sure that its not the ram or hard disk as I have changed both and notice no difference. It's strange because my old dvd rom drive has better times than the new dvd rw which is supposed to be faster. I think it is the smart burn feature, which varies the speed of the drive to create a better burn, is the cause of this.

Well I would agree with that except the drive that I'm using is the exact same drive - I moved it from my old PC to my new one. It only takes CloneDVD like 10 min to create DVD files, but like 40+ min to write it (the Pioneer A06 is 4x)

The file creation is pretty fast. The times that I mentioned above are from the creation (25-35 minutes depending on drive) not the burning time. My drive burns them in 6-8 minutes. Maybe its the media you are using. I also get different times depending the media I use. Does anyone know how to lower the compression times (without removing stuff from the dvd)?

It's actually the opposite for me where creating the files takes only 7-10 min but writing to DVD takes over 40 minutes. I'm using a 4x burner - is this the normal time? Any way to speed up a Pioneer A06?

Well I usually burn at 4x because it is safer but it only takes me 15 minutes at most to burn.