I've a few of the BD burners out there that do 12x bd-r/bd-r dl, but I also notice that the highest speeds (i can find) for media sold is 6x for bd-r, and 2x for bd-r dl... Are these higher speed burners pointless for now until media catches up, or is there some reason they still provide an advantage over others?
I really think it depends on what angle your viewing from. If you cant see the logic in a burner that can write faster than avaible media then sure its pretty pointless. Theres several testers that has 20x dvd burners but only burn at x8 or below on x16-x20 media. You might like what features the drive has. Burn speeds and media write speeds is'nt the bench. You have read speads also. Its not a rule of thumb but usually a drive with a higher write speed can read faster. This helps to cut off some of your over all time. I'm one that actually has fast burning dvd drives and use x16+ media but burn slow. I like the range of settings and faster read speeds. I would have to look at every drive that I was concerding and weigh them against each other. I would never make my decision on the write speed of the media.
Thanks for the reply. It's not a rule of thumb, but I'd say in general the faster burning drives usually have faster or at least standard read speeds for the time they come out. But to clarify then, I guess read speeds are not what I'm most interested in, write speeds are definitely what I care about. In general when I'm burning media it's either to be played (blu-ray/dvd movie or cd/music) in which case I have players other than the pc I'm burning on that they'd actually be played in, OR it's for archival purposes in which case I don't need blazing fast read speeds because i'm not going to be reading/copying from the disk that often. I use burners for burning, so that's usually the stat I'm interested in (although of course it matters whether the architecture is good enough to support the speeds being advertised and do it reliably). I read a little more though, and found that in tests the burner I'm interested in is able to burn at 12x speeds on 6x media, so I guess that kind of answers my question. I thought the burn speed was acutally limited by the media speed 'rating' but apparently it's not...
I understand your point. I dont want my machines to spend a long time ripping. So I like High read speads. Plus w/ the higher buffers its easier on the machines resourses. I noticed w/ my HP 20x burner burning sony discs showed burning at 20x on 16x media. I was amazed untell I grabbed a calculater and it came out to actually only burning around 11x. If all your concerned about is how fast you can put data down on a disc then i would suggest messing around w/ different media untell you found what works the fastest.
