Lidsay said:
I have a liteon 52x32x52x cd-rewriter. Can anyone tell me
which is the best dics to buy. Some discs are 1x-48
Compatible. Others are 1x2x4x6x8x Multi speed
compatible.etc. Please help.
I have a Samsung, LG, and Yamaha drives which are in the 52X range with the
exception of the older and slower Yamaha. I use 48X media and have had very
good luck with Memorex Black. Now making a statement like this is about the
same as saying one car is better than another or a PC is better than a MAC -
there never will be 100% agreement and what somebody swears by will be
considered junk or worse by somebody else. So be prepared to do a bit of
experimenting and then stick with what works for you. Generally, the more
you pay the better the quality but you never know for sure! I have friends
that swear by generic cheapies but my concern is that while you get a great
batch of them the next time they may be made by a different company and they
won't be so good.
Every CD-RW disc I have ever seen is rated for about 12X maximum so I don't
know what good the high middle number really is. I don't use CD-RW much
(only when I am doing a lot of tests requiring a burned CD) since I would
just as soon keep all of my backup CDs rather than re-write one and then
find I could have used what I erased. I only burn data CDs with perhaps
about 10 music CDs being made ever.
I use Roxio 5 to burn my CDs and it seems to to a test before it writes on
the CD and then adjusts the burn rate based on what it found. It also
displays the rate it is burning at when creating the CD. Nero seemed to just
display the speed requested and I could only find out the burn rate was
slower by timing the process. When burning my disk images or data files I
have Roxio set to verify the burned disk. This way I have confidence that my
data backup is good when burned and this is a way to test the quality of the
CDs you are trying.
Try to get the fastest, reliable CD blanks you can since you will find that
even 3 minutes for a CD seems a long time. Also, verifying the burn roughly
doubles the time.
Correct me if I'm wrong,
Billh
