I burn lots of DVDs with Nero but the burn times are driving me crazy. Its taking 10 mins for an 8x burn, when it should be around 7 mins, the counter has the right "time remaining" for a correct burn... it will show about 7 mins, but when 7 mins is up it just keeps counting (it will be around 70%). I've got a brand new NEC 3550 and Im using TY fuji media, using Nero 7.5.1. DMA is enabled and its running in UDMA2 speed. I had the same problem with my old AOpen DVD burner so I bought this NEC to hopefully fix the problem, but no luck.
lets see the times are about right but there could be other issues: spyware, viruses and have you done a defrag lately, how many procvesses are you running when burning.Are you surfing the net.All these things add to the running capacity of your pc.If you dont look after your system then it wont run at optimum output.
Well, I'll basically second that, noting that a fragmented disk is the most likely culprit. You always want to run tools like Ad-Aware, SpyBot, and Ewido and some anti-virus tool, but I prefer not to have my resident AV running while burning.
