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Dave_7
01-31-2002, 10:35 PM
Just a little rant...

We all know that nearly every one of the lightning-fast newer CD-RW drives has some form of Buffer Underrun protection.

Those new recorders will record a CD in 5 minutes or so, eh? And they have the buffer underrun protection so that you can use your computer while burning and not make coasters... right?

The irony of that is this... I can wait 5 minutes without using my computer while a disc burns. Where was the Burn-Proof, though, when I had to sit and wait 40-70 minutes?

THAT's when I needed the Burn-Proof so I could use my comp while burning one of those $3 discs.








Dave.
coleslaw
01-31-2002, 11:30 PM
Originally posted by Dave_7
Where was the Burn-Proof, though, when I had to sit and wait 40-70 minutes?It was in the mind of some engineer, just waiting to break free! :D
Ladogaboy
02-01-2002, 12:28 AM
Originally posted by coleslaw
It was in the mind of some engineer, just waiting to break free! :D

We had to wait a while for the technology though, because he had to burn some CDs first. :P
hapoo
02-01-2002, 10:37 AM
dont worry, you'll get your chance when your sitting around for 40 minutes burnning a $5 DVD.
revil
02-01-2002, 11:10 AM
um... it shouldn't take that long. my roommate has one of those and it has never taken that long to burn a disc
Ladogaboy
02-01-2002, 11:59 AM
Originally posted by revil
um... it shouldn't take that long. my roommate has one of those and it has never taken that long to burn a disc

Well, wait until they start making DVD-R discs that hold more than 4.7 gigs.

How long does it take right now, though?
helius
02-01-2002, 03:03 PM
HP's DVD burner burns at 2.4x (or 3.32MB per second). To burn 1GB of data would require five minutes. So no, it shouldn't take 40 minutes. :)
Ladogaboy
02-01-2002, 06:51 PM
Originally posted by helius
HP's DVD burner burns at 2.4x (or 3.32MB per second). To burn 1GB of data would require five minutes. So no, it shouldn't take 40 minutes. :)

Still, 20-25 minutes is nothing to write home about. :(
qmanchu
02-02-2002, 11:57 PM
I see what you guys are talking about. However, I thought the primary reason for the BURN-Proof technology was to compensate for the speed increase in CD writers. The speed of the writers was getting so fast the some of the slower hard drives wouldn't be able to feed data fast enough. The fact that you're able to use your machine while it's burning was secondary.

Or am I totally off here? :confused: