Is there any advantage in burning DVDs at low or high speeds?

rubadub

I got some cheap 2x DVD-rs, in nero I was allowed to select 8x to burn at, I did this and it verified the data afterwards. I havent watched it fully yet but had a quick flick and it seemed OK. Will this degrade faster than one burnt slower? or is there any advantage to fast or slow burning.

Karoma

Fast burn speeds increases the likelihood of producing coasters - especially if that media is certified for a much slower speed. You got lucky this time

rubadub

Well I ran off 4 copies at 8x and all verified OK. They were tuffdisk overprints and were just 9p each, I have a NEC 3500.

But once burned is it identical to one burned at 2X?

http://www.svp.co.uk/products-list.php?pg=3

Karoma

...yeah; provided the data is all there.. yeah.But there's usually a reason they say Yx speed

Fix the link?

Balfa

rubadub wrote:

Will this degrade faster than one burnt slower?

It most certainly will. However, the extent to which it does so is anyone's guess. It could last for decades with high or low speed, or it could last for months with high or low speed, or it could last for decades at low speed and months at high speed. But it absolutely will degrade more if it's burned at a higher speed. This is true, to a greater or lesser extent, with any media on any drive.

But once burned is it identical to one burned at 2X?

Again, definitely not, and again the extent to which it differs from one burned at 2x can only be suggested through practical experimentation.

If I'm archiving important stuff, I'm not worried it if takes 6 minutes or 26 minutes to burn the DVD, I just want to make sure its as robust as possible.

rubadub

Karoma wrote:

Fix the link?

The link didnt work first time, now it does for me. enter " Tuffdisc Overprints DVD-R " in the search.

http://www.svp.co.uk/index.php

They have 16X for cheap too. I never heard of overprints before, apparently it is discs that were labelled wrongly they put another coating on to cover the mistake, you get the disks cheaper and they have a thicker coat so should be more scratch resistant.

Balfa wrote:

If I'm archiving important stuff, I'm not worried it if takes 6 minutes or 26 minutes to burn the DVD, I just want to make sure its as robust as possible.

Thats what I always figured, and I do the same. I only got these cheap ones just to pass out films to mates that will probably only be watched once or twice. I prefer giving people copies rather than a loan of the real disc, incase it is scratched or lost.

Karoma

In reality, the only difference I've ever observed is at creation time...

Mutant_Fruit

I burned some 4x discs at 6x and 8x a good few months back. Most of them are unreadable now, which is a pita, as the stuff on those discs cannot be gotten again.

Don't burn discs faster than they're rated for. They will not last as long as discs burnt within their spec unless they are high quality discs (and tuffdiscs wouldn't fall into that category).

Of course, its possible the discs ARE 8x discs, but mislabeled as 2x ones. Check the media code on the DVD's (theres programs to do this) and google it to see what the general opinion on that media code is. If its a good mediacode, you might get away with burning faster than they're rated, otherwise those discs will end up in the bin soon enough.

www.cdfreaks.com has loads of info on that kinda stuff.