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[DarthWoo]

I have about half a spindle of CD-Rs left from a big order I made a couple years ago. I threw out the packaging that was falling off the spindle anyway, but unfortunately that was the only indication of the speed of these discs. Is there any way to figure out, based on either the little serial numbers on the inside edge of the discs, or the brand, or with my burner, what their maximum burn speed is?

I'm guessing 16x, since they're a little old, but when I install my new DVD burner (with 42x CD-R write speed), I'm hoping maybe I'm wrong.

The trouble with my old burner is that despite its 16x write speed, it always fails if I try to burn at anything more than 12x, regardless of the kind of disc I put in. It wasn't that much of an issue since 12x was plenty fast enough for me, but since I can burn much faster now, I want to if I can.

Edit: And while I'm in a new thread of my own, which avatar do you think looks better?

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[DaCocoBrova]

Put it in the burner and Nero or whatever burning s/w you use should tell you. It'll be the highest speed avail.

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[DarthWoo]

It knows just from putting the disc in? I guess I'll have to wait until I install my new burner then, to see if it can be any faster than 16x. I've got a 2 hour class in one hour, so I think I'll hold off until after that. Thanks.

 

[DarthWoo]

Alright, I tried burning a regular CD-R. These are pretty old, and I could swear their original packaging said 16x. However, when I went to burn in Roxio, it allowed me to try up to the max of 42x. I noticed that at times during the burn, it said that the actual burn speed was hovering around 20x. It seems to have burned everything alright, as the movies I burned play alright. Unfortunately whoever encoded them didn't put any keyframes in, so you can't track around at all, and have to watch it from beginning to end, so I couldn't skip around to check for errors. Should I just assume that if it didn't tell me anything was wrong, that nothing is wrong?

I noticed Roxio doesn't do an error check after the burn like Nero did. For some reason though, Nero seems to insist on burning to an image file now, rather than to the burner, perhaps because it's a version of Nero that was meant just for CD burners? I can't check the max speed on there any more therefore.

Is there any program I can use to check the integrity of the files on the CD versus the copies on my hard drive?