Which CD burner is faster?
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48x, all the new burners you buy today should be more than adequate speed wise for anything you wnat to do.\n\nThats the whole point of Buffer Under run protection so if the drive cannot keep up there is no break in the data being received.\n\nThat is not a Nero thing it has to be supported by the actual burner, but all new burners today should have this built in.\n\nNothing wrong with using cake boxes of 50 or more, brand names are availble in these and you will save your self some money, I use Fujifilm and Sony myself with good results.
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Bogus_Dude is right i have CD Burner xp pro and it is very good and it is free.It can do all of the things that you want.
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There are many good answers already given above, and a few bad ones. \n\nNot one person has mentioned important factors such as how much RAM you have, how fast your CPU is, or even more importantly, WHAT you are burning in the first place.!!\n\nI you are burning a wide variety of files scattered all over \nyour computer, say from another CD, a USB memory device, \nmany different folders from dfferent harddrives, all at once,\nthen there is a hiccup every time the computer has to load in the data from a different location... Burn slow !\n\nIf you are gathering MP3 songs which are scattered all over your harddrive in many sub-nested folders, burn slower.\n\nIf you a copying another CD of your favourite songs or MP3's, you have to consider - how fast is the CD you are reading from, how fast is the data tranfere From one CD to the other, and not just in terms of the " rated" speed, but is one a Master, and the other Slave on the SAME CABLE? If so, the speed is cut in half, since there is only one cable, the cable can only read OR write at any moment, and the data\ncannot read, and be sent to the other CD immediately, which it " COULD " do if the 2 CD's were on DIFFERENT cables...\n\nBe aware that the "rated" speed of any CD is the fastest speed that the CD can burn --- *** IN ONLY ONE SPOT ON THE\nCD *** --- That means that in the tiny centre area of the CD, where the radius of the circle is the smallest, the CD can burn the dots at the fastest speed. As you go out farther on the CD, the actual speed of the track increases greatly, and on the outmost last 1.4 inch, I do not know of a single CD burner that can burn at the " ADVERTISED " speed. ( So in "fact " no CD burner at all burns at the\nhighest speed listed  ). A good CD burner will burn at 80 times. If you take a laser speed reader and look at any CD, you will see the speed decrease as the burner head moves away from the center...\n \n SO, if you have a 4 Giga Hertz computer, with 2 GigaBytes of ram, and an 80 X Speed Burner, and use Serial ATA 10,000\nRPM harddrives, and have each CD machine on a separate ATA 80 pin cable as a MASTER, then you can burn quite fast, with\nfew errors appearing immediately...\n\n I agree with the answer that a slower burn is a more reliable, better burn, with less problems. If you have\na collection of files from differnt harddrives and CD's,\n-- put them in a SINGLE FOLDER, and burn the contents of the \nnew folder, since everything there will be in the same\norder, in the same location, with no hiccups since  the computer does not have to change devices to read the data. \n\n  If you can, try to arrange your cables to the CD's so that\nthe Burner is NOT on the same cable as the harddrive or the\nother CD you might be gathering data from.\n\n Two people with exactly the same harddrive, CD reader, and CD burner, can have totally different success in burning CD's at any given speed. If the first person has the harddrive on a ATA cable, with the CDs as Masters on\n2 differnt cables, while the second person has the\nharddrive and the CD burner on the same cable, as Master and Slave,\nthe second person will not be able to burn as fast without having problems....\n\nI generally burn at 1/2 the speed of the rated machine listing. If the burner is rated at 48, I aim for 24, and if\nI know WHERE THE DATA IS COMMING FROM, ie., from a slower device, the network, or scattered folders, I burn even slower. It does make a differnce. If I am forced to gather\nthe data I am burning from the SAME CABLE.... ( a master or slave on the same cable as the burner ) I burn even slower\nagain... After a while you get a good " feel " for where you can put the speed settings, on each machine...\n I have hundreds of BAD CD burns. Live and learn. There are hundreds of exceptions to each rule, and different software\nprograms for burning, and different manufacters of CD's, readers, burners,
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Nero is the great but Roxio may be better for someone new to burning because it is very easy use.
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Main Advantage- Size! \nThe *typical* DVD can hold 4.7gigs of data, where a *typical* CD holds 700megs of data. With the newer DVD Writers (and re-Writers) They have introduced a "Dual Layer" DVD that holds 8.5gigs of data, or 12 CDs worth of data, but they require a Dual Layer compatible reader to work with them, where a standard (older) DVD drive would mainly take CDs or DVDs, but not Dual Layer DVDs.\nBoth DVDs and CDs are available in right once or re-writable, but with older DVD writers, they used one format to read and write where two were available- so there are DVD-R or -RW and DVD+R or +RW. Newer burners will deal with both, as will newer readers. \nCost used to be an issue, but recently, its been cheaper to buy DVDs on sale (right once) than but CDs (right once).
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CDBurnerXP might be ok. I posted a site that has a list of them.
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The easiest way is to look at the front of the drive, it should say something about being a burner or if it has three speeds listed it can burn. Another way is if you bought your computer from somewhere and have the model number of your computer then you can google or yahoo search that and it should result in a few pages which should say if your computer came with a CD burner or not.
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Nero definitely. Using others are just waste of time. There is also a software named InCd that comes with the Nero Cd. It lets you use a Cd-rw just like a floppy disk.
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tigerdirect.com has DVD burners for under $50\nalso newegg.com
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Maybe you can read more about it here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_burner\n\nAnyhow, you'll need a special software to do that. Try a google search for that and have fun.
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Try this, good brand burner for only $28:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106014\nor for only $4 more, get one with DVD-RAM capability and LightScribe:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106019
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nope,not unless its a cd-rw/dvd-rw if not then no,most cd-burners are just strictly cd burners.i think cd-rw/dvd-rw are ussually called combo burners.
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Better to ask "Speed vs compatability."\n\nWhen burning either CDs or DVDs at higher and higher speeds, one thing that becomes more of a problem is whether the resulting disc will work in other CD or DVD players.  For various technical reasons, including differing media and differing firmware in the drive itself, both CDs and DVDs tend to have more issues when burned at the highest speed that the burner supports, and few or no problems when burning at lower speeds.\n\nAlso, 16x and 8x media differ in subtle but important ways, which affect the speed you can burn at.  You will (usually) be limited to the speed of the media for your top burn rate, so 8x media will limit you to 8x speeds for burning.\n\nIf you are burning only for your use on your own computer, then you need to weigh the costs vs the benefits yourself.  If your DVD burns at maximum speed through the entire burn (which is unlikely), then for 90 minutes of video, the 8x burn will take about 11 minutes, 30 seconds, vs 5m 45s for a 16x burn.  If that 5 minutes is worth the price difference to you, then get the 16x discs.  If not, then get the 8x discs.
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To expand.\n\nThe drive rating works as follows\n\n8x(1200 kb/s approx) is the maximum speed at which you can write normal write once CD-R's.\n\n4x(600 kb/s approx) is the maximum speed at which you can write or erase a normal Rewritable( write many) CD-RW.\n\n32x(4800 kb/s approx) is the maximum speed at which the drive can read or transfer data to the hard drive from a cd.\n\nSo your computer will be able to write a 52 speed CD-R disk at a maximum of 8x.\n\nSince it's an older drive it might not support buffer underrun prevention as the guy was alluding to above. If you write at 8x and the computer gives you a buffer under run message, write slower. If you have a fast pc, it would be better. The older writers came with very small buffers.\n\nAnd to answer your actual question you will be able to record/copy/burn music cd's. Whether you will be succesful burning mp3's as a normal audio disk, playable in your hifi or car stereo, will be mostly depend on your computers capablities. If you have trouble with this convert the mp3's to wav files first.
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Your best bet is to buy a REAL burner. Generic trashy third-rate brands like "Lite-on" and Sony arn't worth anything. (Sony simply re-packages third-rate drives with their logo)\n\nYou want a decent burner, get yourself a Plextor. Ask around, they make some of the best and most reliable burners on the market.
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lots of people been asking these kind of questions in computer forum..\n\nas far i know, plextor provide the best optical drives, despite the fact that they are more expensive.. if you are in budget then go of NEC .\n\nif you use lots of ur dvdr-w room, you will notice the performance will decrease from time to time, so it is good to have 2 burner and use them alternatively
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You can read the review of Roxio 8 from Cnet, http://reviews.cnet.com/Roxio_Easy_Media_Creator_8/4505-3669_7-31554137.html and compare it to Nero 7, http://reviews.cnet.com/Nero_7_Ultra_Edition/4505-3669_7-31520827.html which scored slightly better.  I will leave you to make your own decision from there.\n\nPersonally I prefer a couple of freeware tools that do very much the same thing, CDBurnerXP Pro, http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cdburnerxp.html and DeepBurner, http://www.deepburner.com/\n\nRead reviews of those here, http://www.download.com/DeepBurner/3003-2646_4-10447242.html and here http://www.download.com/CDBurnerXP-Pro/3640-2646_4-10409087.html