Well...mine isn't, it's slllllloooooooowwwwwwwwwww...and I found out why!
I recently ran out of my Sony DVD-Rs (17" PowerBook G4, among others) which had been zipping along nicely at 8x burns. I went to OfficeMax and purchased some Memorex 16x DVD-Rs...and as Emeril says, BAM! Down to 2x max!
I have come to find out that it is indeed the media that is the problem. If you have a Mac running OS X, open a Terminal window with a piece of blank media in the drive. Type 'drutil status' and you'll be presented with several items, two of which are important:
First, notice the 'Cur Write' and 'Max Write' values. Secondly notice the 'Media ID'.
There is nothing you can do to change the values of the 'Cur/max' write. It is what it is (with that said, I'm sure some enterprising person will find the file that must define what the values are based on the Media ID, and hack it).
The important thing here becomes the 'Media ID'. Check out this site: http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
Here you'll notice that the Memorex I have (RITEKF1) is in the '2nd Class Media' section, and the Sony (my last one!) is in the '1st Class Media' section.
For whatever it's worth (and your millage may vary), when I stick to media in the 1st class section, I burn at max rates. Lately, that's been TDK and Sony.
Hope this helps someone out there!
Cheers,
Mark
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I recently ran out of my Sony DVD-Rs (17" PowerBook G4, among others) which had been zipping along nicely at 8x burns. I went to OfficeMax and purchased some Memorex 16x DVD-Rs...and as Emeril says, BAM! Down to 2x max!
I have come to find out that it is indeed the media that is the problem. If you have a Mac running OS X, open a Terminal window with a piece of blank media in the drive. Type 'drutil status' and you'll be presented with several items, two of which are important:
First, notice the 'Cur Write' and 'Max Write' values. Secondly notice the 'Media ID'.
There is nothing you can do to change the values of the 'Cur/max' write. It is what it is (with that said, I'm sure some enterprising person will find the file that must define what the values are based on the Media ID, and hack it).
The important thing here becomes the 'Media ID'. Check out this site: http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
Here you'll notice that the Memorex I have (RITEKF1) is in the '2nd Class Media' section, and the Sony (my last one!) is in the '1st Class Media' section.
For whatever it's worth (and your millage may vary), when I stick to media in the 1st class section, I burn at max rates. Lately, that's been TDK and Sony.
Hope this helps someone out there!
Cheers,
Mark
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