burning DVDs and CD quality

if my drive is capable if burning dvds at 20x and CDs at 48x, would burning it at max speed lower the quality? and would that result in a higher chance of error and a bad burn? or should i burn at a lower speed to lessen the risk of failure and have better quality?



also, would quality be lower if i took a burned music CD and burned another one off of that as opposed to burning directly from the original CD?

Trick questions. It all depends on the burner you got and the media you use. Verbatim and toyo yuden are one of the best. Some media quality is better at faster burns speeds. If you got important documents I would suggest to burn 2 disk at different speeds that way if one fails the other one should be good. DVD's I would burn at no lover than 8x and 12 max. and cd's no lower than 16x. Let me know what burner you got I may be able to help you out on the best deals on media.

Basically, it's a matter of convenience vs quality.

I can burn DVDs and DVD+RWs at max speed (4x...yay) with no problems. But with audio CDs, I find that if I burn much faster than 24x or 32x, I get occasional verifying errors or sound dropouts on the stereo. Data CDs I can burn up to 40x with no problems at all. Go figure.

What I did over the years was start at the slowest speeds, and worked my way up to faster burn rates until I started having problems, then backed down. Some burn speeds aren't as fast as I'd like or my drive is capable of, but then again, I don't have to worry about errors.

For DVD-R, I use TDK.
DVD+RW, Memorex.
CD-R and CD-RW, I've used Imation, TDK, HP, and Philips.
Anything by Sony coughs up coasters.

Tom

i have THIS samsung 20x dvd burner, THIS LG 18x dvd burner, Dynex dvd media, and GQ cd media if that helps

and what does "lightscribe" and "super multi" features do? do they improve the quality of the burns?

Burning at faster speeds has nothing to do with the quality, but your more likely to run into buffer overruns- read or write errors. So if you burn at max you'll have more frisbees to throw. But if it makes it all the way through the burn at max with no errors then the quality will be the same as it would at the slowest speed.

Both does drives will love DVD+R's. Your problem is not your drive but the media you have. GQ is trash media. Trust me on this burning does effect QUALITY of the burn. Like I said before it all depends on your drive and media used. Going slower is not allays good with this newer drive. By a small pack and try them out:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817130961
this is for cd-r:
http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/mercha...ode=TAIYOYUDEN

current tdk, memorex, phillips meida are made by the same company if it's made in taiwan and are considered average to below average media.



made in taiwan sony's is considered above average. made in japan sony's are top notch (made by either taiyo yuden or sony).



for more information on which dvdr media is better check this forum out:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f76/

there's a section on cdr media as well.



rule is good media + good burner + best burn speed for that burner = good output. certain burners burn well at certain speeds and depends on the firmware used. for my pioneer 111L verbatims and yudens were best burned at 8x regardless of its rated speeds. there are tests you can run to check the burn quality. i haven't been messing with my samsumg much so i can't say much about this burner.



if anybody's interested i only use:

taiyo yuden (branded or unbranded)

verbatims (made in taiwan by cmc or made in singapore by the mother company).

GQ (if it's made in taiwan it has the sony mid. i use this for friends)

I use Verbatim for everything. And like the other poster stated, when burning at max, you risk the chance of errors. So I always burn at 3/4 of my rated speed.

Very cool. Thanks for that link.

You can burn cd or dvd at maximum speed of your pc. This'll not effect burning cd/dvd except your speed...