DVD burner slowing down

cplclegg · Post by **cplclegg** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:20 am

I have a NEC 2500A. It's 8x and until recently it has taken about 8-12 minutes to write a DVD. Now it's taking almost 30 minutes. I do have the latest firmware installed. The only thing different is my second HD was starting to fail and that is where I had my files that I was burning stored. The old drive was a Maxtor 40 gb 5400 RPM. It was set up as a slave to the DVD-RW's master on the secondary IDE. I switched everything over to a seperate partiton from the OS and programs on my main drive, an IBM 80 gb 5400 RPM. The burner is now the slave on the drive.

So is this slow down cause by the the way it's set up? Would switching the burner to be the secondary master help? I'm also thinking of getting an external firewire HD, would this help at all and if I do do this is it better to have the burner be primary slave or secondary master? I am pretty sure I also have DMA enabled on the burner and the HD.

Any help is appreciated.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:37 am

For me, the best (fastest) transfer rate of data occured when the devices were on different IDE channels. IOW, if my stored data drive was on my secondary IDE, then I would have my burner as a slave on my primary...

Are you sure that your IBM drive is in good shape and not starting to fail? You may want to defrag and scan disk it...

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:40 am

Definitely move it over to the Secondary Master.

The IDE cable is a one way transfer and that will slow you down.

Also 5400 RPM is pretty slow hard drive as well and can be the issue.

Have you tried running any tests with Nero? Also what is rest of specs? XP?

Also what media are you using?

cplclegg · Post by **cplclegg** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:11 pm

I moved the burner over to the secondary master and moved my buffer cache to the same partition is the files I burn. I'm back down to about 10 minutes which is what I was getting before. I am curious as to why a drive on the secondary would be faster than if it's on the primary.

As far as I can tell from diagnostics and disk checking the drive is fine, just slow. I do want to upgrade to a bigger, faster drive though, just need a good piece of software to migrate over all the programs and XP so I don't need to reinstall everything. Any suggestions?

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:25 pm

the reason it is faster is becuase IDE is one way transfer, not two ways.

dafizzle123 · Post by **dafizzle123** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:08 am

well my burner used to burn dvds of about 2 GB in 5min and now 600MB takes almost 20min...... Help PLZ?