DVD burner speed question...

[acousticlemur]

i have this burner

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151153

and right now i am using thsi media

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817287006

but i have tried it with memorex, verbatium, and sony disks. and the fastest read while ripping is 2X and the fastest burn speed i get is 3.2X anyone have any ideas? my no name IDE dvdrw will rip and burn a dvd twice as fast as my new sata one. i put in 2 movies last night and started them at the same time and the ide was done and i was 25 min into the movie before the sata one was done. should i rma it, or throw it out and buy a new one? i bought it back in sept so i am not sure if i can still rma it or not. but this thing has never impressed me.

[acousticlemur]

bump-ity-bump bump...

[WhiteLotus]

sounds stupid but you made sure your burning at a high speed?

[JrRacinFan]

You obviously aren't running a raid setup. Do you have AHCI enabled in bios?

[WhiteLotus]

You obviously aren't running a raid setup. Do you have AHCI enabled in bios?

can you please explain as to why a raid would be better? :confused:

[JrRacinFan]

Never said anything to suggest running a raid setup. I was just saying that he obviously isn't running one. ;)

[WhiteLotus]

oh i see. yes you are correct, my brain assumes too much

[acousticlemur]

sounds stupid but you made sure your burning at a high speed?
yeah i have tried every option from 16X on down to 2X. and still burns SLOW


well i am using the raid sata on my board for my 120GB maxtor sata drive (Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAOD0 SCSI Dosl Device... acording to device manager) but no i am not using raid. i only have 4 sata's on my board. 2 red witch use the promise fasttrack 378 controller and 2 black that use the via sata. the dvd burner is on the regular sata (via) connector. (the promise fast track would not recogonize it, prolly cause it is not a HDD)

and as far as the AHCI in the bios i am not sure, i will reboot after posting this and see. but i dont think i have seen it anywhere. only enable/disable both via and promise and raid and ide mode for the promise.

[Snipe343]

rma it then

[suraswami]

update firmware. Go to Samsung and check if they have updates.

[BloodTotal]

dont go through all this trouble just buy a new one they are like $30 for one that can burn 20x

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151153

[acousticlemur]

update firmware. Go to Samsung and check if they have updates.

it came with a cd that had an firmware auto update program, but when i run it it says that my drive is not compatible with the firmware update. and when i go to the site and dl the right firmware file and run it it says the same thing.

dont go through all this trouble just buy a new one they are like $30 for one that can burn 20x

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151153

yeah that is the one i have, and i am wondering if it is a setting on my computer or in bios, or if it is just a bad drive. that is the exact one i have.


also i cant play battlefield 2142 with the disk in this drive. works with BF2 and all other games. i have to play 2142 with the disk in my IDE drive...