Will microstudio backup my discs faster than CDRWIN??

[chronicpain]

It takes me 15 minutes to backup 1 CDG disc using CDRWIN. I have a 40x cd burner too. Is there a faster way?

[admin]

Maybe, but we need more facts than you have posted.

1. What is the manufacturer and model number of your CDR drive?

2. What is the record speed of your CDR drive?

3. What is your processor type and clock speed?

4. What is the rotational speed of your hard drive (7,200rpm, etc.)?

We'll try to answer your question with these additional facts.

[chronicpain]

1. I have a Plextor Plexwriter E-IDE (ATAPI-4) - Internal part #PX-W4012TA/SW

2. Here are the specs for record speed etc...
Data Transfer Rate Z-CLV and CLV write/CAV read
Sustained Read/Write Speeds 17X/40X (CAV read only) 2.6–6.0 MB/sec (Mode 1, XA Mode 2 Form1, and CD-R)
40X (write only) 6.0 MB/sec
32X (write only) 4.8 MB/sec
24X (write only) 3.6 MB/sec (CD-DA, CD-R)
20X (write only) 3.0 MB/sec
16X (write only) 2.4 MB/sec (CD-DA, CD-R)
14X/32X (CAV read only) 2.08–4.8 MB/sec (CD-DA and CD-R)
10X/24X (PCAV read only) 1.56–3.6 MB/sec (CD-RW)
12X (rewrite only) 1.8 MB/sec
10X (rewrite only) 1.5 MB/sec
8X (read/write/rewrite) 1.2 MB/sec (CD-DA, CD-R)
4X (read/write/rewrite) 600 KB/sec (CD-DA, CD-R)
2X (rewrite only) 300 KB/sec
Burst Read/Write 16.6 MB/sec (PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2), 33.3 MB/sec (UDMA Mode 2)
Average Random Access 120 ms
Buffer 4 MB
Error Rate CD-ROM Mode 1: block/1012 bits, CD-ROM Mode 2: block/109 bits
Spindle Motor Brushless

3. I have a P4 2 GHZ processor with 640mb of RDRAM

4. I have a 60 gig hard drive 7200

This should give you all the info you need. Please let me know if your software will back up my CD+G's faster than CDRWIN

Thanks

[chronicpain]

Well I gave you the info whats taking so long to respond?

[chronicpain]

ANYONE EVER GONNA RESPOND???

[George]

MAYBE THEY WENT HOME FOR THE WEEKEND !

[jim in ohio]

The only way to back up faster is to use a program that uses copy on fly. I heard that MTU is looking into that option also, there are programs out there with that option.

[George]

Presently Microstudio always writes image to the hard drive, then copies to disc. That may answer your question. It is also a fact where CDG is concerned that slower speeds create cleaner copies. High speed copy is the main reason for all those glitches you see in the commercial discs we pay good money for.

Something to ponder


George

[MTUSUPPORT]

Using this same drive under Microstudio, copying to the Hard drive takes about 8 minutes, exactly, then writing takes about 4 minutes. This equals about 12 minutes total using the drive and Microstudio.

This is from a test that I had done. This is the exact same as the Plextor 24/10/40 also. The drives are identical in reading and writing audio/Karaoke.

You can read an Audio disc in on either of these drives in about 2.5 minutes, compared to the 8 for Karaoke, due to it not having the read the subcodes for the Karaoke.