Well when I had bought this drive to install in my gateway it burned DVD's fine at 16x-12x easy 2-5min wait tops now in my new home made PC with 2GB+ RAM 3.2Ghz P4 SLI video cards everything I could buy top end is in it, now when I go burn CD-R's its fine 48x about a 2-3min wait but with DVD's now some option mustve been changed when installin my new pc, at 16x its an easy 10-15min wait and at 12x a horrible 20min+ it does this with Nero 7 Ultimate and also Roxio and even the Plextor Burning software it came with here is the log file for Nero 7 on my 20min+ burn on 12x -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4C80-0010-8011-0000-9188-4793-9707 Windows XP 5.1 IA32 WinAspi: - ahead WinASPI: File 'F:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=2.0.1.74, size=164112 bytes, created 11/2/2004 12:54:32 PM NT-SPTI used Nero Version: 7.0.8.2 Internal Version: 7, 0, 8, 2 Recorder: <PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A> Version: 1.09 - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.0.8.2 Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1 Drive buffer : 8192kB Bus Type : default (0) -> ATAPI, detected: ? CD-ROM: <PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A >Version: 1.09 - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.0.8.2 Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1 === Scsi-Device-Map === CdRomPeripheral : PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A atapi Port 0 ID 0 DMA: Off DiskPeripheral : WDC WD1600JB-00DUA3 atapi Port 0 ID 1 DMA: On DiskPeripheral : WDC WD400BD-23JMC0 atapi Port 2 ID 0 DMA: On === CDRom-Device-Map === PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A E: CDRom0 ======================= AutoRun : 1 Excluded drive IDs: WriteBufferSize: 83886080 (0) Byte BUFE : 0 Physical memory : 2047MB (2096364kB) Free physical memory: 1164MB (1192424kB) Memory in use : 43 % Uncached PFiles: 0x0 Use Inquiry : 1 Global Bus Type: default (0) Check supported media : Disabled (0) 16.6.2006 UDF/ISO compilation 2:33:19 PM #1 Phase 112 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1730 DVD-Video files reallocation started 2:33:19 PM #2 Phase 114 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1730 DVD-Video files reallocation completed (no file modified) 2:33:19 PM #3 Text 0 File Isodoc.cpp, Line 6423 UDF document burn settings ------------------------------------------ Determine maximum speed : FALSE Simulate : FALSE Write : TRUE Finalize CD : TRUE Multisession : FALSE Burning mode : DAO Mode : 1 UDF Mode : UDF/ISO bridge UDF Options : automatic UDF Revision : 1.02 UDF Partition Type : physical ISO Level : 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 char) Character set : ISO 9660 Joliet : FALSE Allow pathdepth more than 8 directories : TRUE Allow more than 255 characters in path : TRUE Write ISO9660 ;1 file extensions : TRUE 2:33:19 PM #4 Phase 111 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1730 DVD-Video files sorted 2:33:19 PM #5 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 531 ReadBuffer-Pipe got 262144KB of Memory 2:33:19 PM #6 Text 0 File Reader.cpp, Line 124 Reader running
