Originally posted by creaky:

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well i still swear by 8x for most of my burners/burns, or just 4x if trying to use MCC004 (especially when burning them via USB2.0 burners).

20x pah!

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Originally posted by Auslander:

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"ridiculous,", i imagine.

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Originally posted by JoeRyan:

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The Lite-on 20A1H will record at 20X on only three discs: CMC 16X DVD+R and Taiyo Yuden DVD+/-R. The results with all three exceed the PIE spec with figures of 700-800 with CMC and up to 900 with both TY models. The maximum rpm of the drive is close to its theoretical limit of 11,500 rpm. Oddly enough, these discs and the Verbatim discs produce excellent results at 18X, but the time savings at 18X is only 31 seconds faster than 16X, and 20X "saves" 17 seconds--where's the "savings" if the disc won't work?--compared to 18X. These are maximum figures only attainable if the disc is filled to capacity. Any less full, and there is less time saved.

Neither the DVD Forum nor the DVD+RW Alliance has written any specs for 18X or 20X recording. They realize the folly involved. The 20X drives do have beefed up diodes and bearings; so they are better than standard drives, but running them at full capacity just saves seconds and wastes discs. Magazine reviewers, of course, will rate the drives better because they are faster. It's all a horse race to them. The real value lies in how well the drives record discs, how many different types the firmware supports, and how well and how long the manufacturer supports the drive with firmware updates. Most prefer that users buy new drives rather than update their old ones. There is no reason to abandon a good 8X or 16X drive at this point unless one really needs DL recording because the new 8X DL media will be inverse stack production, and the older DL drives are poor at recording them.

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Originally posted by BurningAs:

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oui, redick veut dire rediculous.

je parle francaise aussi.

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Originally posted by Ripper:

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Je ne comprends pas ;-)

**J/k**

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