Nero burstspeeds

[marneus]

In nero drivetesting/benchmarking, it lists my CDRW & my CD drive as having a burst of only 2MB... is this okay or a bit low ???
all my drives are on diff cables (I have RAID card in my system)

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[jihiggs]

thats just the size of your cache

i went to the tomshardware forums and all i got was this lousy signature.

 

[ath0mps0]

And cache determines burst. So at 16x write (16 * 150kBps = 2400kBps) your cache will run out in less than one second if data stops flowing into it (called a buffer under-run). This is why BurnProof or other buffer under-run protection is so important.

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[marneus]

thanx... that explains it then (am I glad my drive is burnproof
** a though... with burnproof, is more cache still better ??? **

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[ath0mps0]

If your system resorts to burnproof a lot, more cache could be helpful. When a system buffer-under-runs and uses burnproof it slows the burn down significantly each time. While you don't end up with a bunch of coasters and can use your system for other things while burning, your burns can take just as long as if you were using a 4x burner instead of a 16x one. Usually if you see this and have a fairly recent system, you can resolve your problem by re-arranging the IDE assignments, enabling DMA (if possible), etc. Even more cache won't save you if the delay is more than a second or two.

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