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First 16x DVD+R Recording Tests Available

Posted by timothy on from the buncha-freaks dept.

An anonymous reader submits "CD Freaks.com has made a first preview of 16x DVD recording. Many people wondered if 16x DVD recording would be too fast and data could not be delivered by the hard disk. The first tests show that this is not a real problem. 16x DVD recording means that a DVD disk is written in about 6 minutes . The test drive, a BenQ DW1600, also supports dual layer writing and writing at 16x to 8x media."

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  1. Typo? by lancomandr · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "The test drive, a BenQ DW1600 also supports dual layer writing and writing to 16x at 8x media."

    Last time I checked I couldn't write to 16x itself at any speed of media.

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  2. Could they confuse you anymore... by bdigit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The opening sentence...

    "We have just seen the first 12x DVD-writers appearing in stores, and here we have it; the first 16X DVD-Writer!"

    All those dashes confuse the hell out of me when we have DVD media that is referred to by DVD+R or DVD-R. I had to re-read to make sure they were really talking about DVD+R and not DVD-R.

  3. The need for speed by Slayer_X · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Man, wait some months and u can obtain the uber DVD-burner at XX mega-hyper-speed.

    Is really a need to have the last toy in hardware?

    Don't waste your money :-D

    "saludos"

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    1. Re:The need for speed by FlipmodePlaya · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I jumped on the CDR bandwagon a bit early, and god burned by it. The drive I bought ruined discs far too often, in the days where they weren't $.20 a piece. Yet there was no hope for a return, because that was the 'nature of CD burning'. I won't make the same mistake with DVD burners, I advise all to wait a year or two.

  4. Data from HD no problem.... With Raid 0 by CtrlPhreak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Come on guys, not everyone has raid with two fast drives, last I'd checked a lot of consumer pcs still ship with 5400 drives. This bottleneck may indeed be a problem with burning 16x dvds on the average system.

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  5. I think I speak for many when I say by ashot · · Score: 2, Insightful


    who cares?

    6 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, does it matter?

    how often do people burn an entire DVD? If you burn so many that speed matters you probably shouldn't be using a consumer solution anyway.

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  6. Re:Ewww, BenQ by ameoba · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt BenQ actually makes any of their own hardware; they probably just buy parts from some Taiwanese company nobody's ever heard of and put it into a BenQ box.

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  7. a summary by vmircea · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Basically to give a little summary for people who like having information condensed into a readable form... of things you should know about this technology...

    1. Unless you have a smoking hard drive you're not gonna see 16X speeds (ATA hard drive? you wish)

    2. Unless your PC is relatively fast as well, in addition to a good deal of RAM (as in their test system) it's also not going to happen.

    3. And an IMPORTANT note: Don't get caught up in the craze of getting the newest thing, this will probably cost an unholy amount when it comes out, and the requirements will be really high, which will add to the price as well. I have a 4X DVDRW and although it isn't anywhere near as fast, I don't need godly system specs to use it. And neither do I need to drop anything else I'm doing. Also note that on a lesser system that they tested it with you will see significantly slower writing.

    Hope you found this helpful.

    1. Re:a summary by sexecutioner · · Score: 2, Insightful

      In response to point (2).

      You could also have 4GB of RAM (or so), and do the burn from there.

      Just a thought.

  8. Grandparent is *not* an isolated incident. by The+Darkness · · Score: 4, Insightful
    No, and CDs don't work like that either.

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but they most certainly do.

    It most certainly could be that an old drive can't read discs burned by newer, faster drives. The older drives may be less fault tolerant. Pre-pressed discs could be ok but a disc burned too fast could have pits just slightly too close together or too far apart that confuse the older drive.

    I have seen this happen with CDs on more than one occasion. Slowing down the burn speed made a disc usable by the older drive. Think PSX backups.

    In fact, there should be no..

    Should being the key word.
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  9. Re:8x vs 16x by Pooua · · Score: 4, Insightful
    As I understand it, the main difference in writing speeds between various types of optical media is the dye formulation used in the media.

    "To achieve 2.4x high-speed writing, Verbatim DVD+R utilises a patented Metal Azo dye as the recording layer."

    Verbatim: Verbatim Announces 4.7GB DVD+R Discs

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  10. Yes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...and everyone defrags everyday too!