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SATA DVD burner ridiculously slow
Name: LenN (by Len N) Date: June 19, 2007 at 08:42:46 Pacific OS: xp-pro CPU/Ram: core2 duo 2.4ghz (E6600) Product: Intel
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I recently built a system with a gigabyte P965-DQ6 MB, 4GB DDR800 Ram, dual WD sata HDDs and dual Plextor 755 SATA DVD burners. Burning 4gb data on a DVD takes over 100 min. My 1.8 ghz XP-home sys with 1gb ram takes less than half that. I thought I was building a super fast machine with the SATA DVD burners but find I have a dog. I get the same results with Roxio and Plextools pro (a piece of junk, BTW).
Name: LenN (by Len N) Date: June 19, 2007 at 08:44:26 Pacific
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Addendum. The Gigabyte MB is rev 3.3 - the latest.
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Response Number 2
Name: max00 Date: June 19, 2007 at 09:10:32 Pacific
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The following is only applicable to IDE drives and SATA drives IF they are running in 'combined' mode.
The hard drive and DVD drive are probably on the same channel. For optimum performance you want the drives that xfer data between each other the most on different channels. You probably need to move the DVD drive to the second controller cable.
When they are on different channels the system can be reading from one drive and writing to the other at the same time. If they are on the same channel that cannot be done.
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Response Number 3
Name: Cobra_R Date: June 19, 2007 at 12:38:34 Pacific
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Getting an SATA DVD burner was a waste of time. There is no preformance diff between IDE DVD burners and SATA DVD burners. Unless you were buying it for less clutter inside your case then buying an SATA burner wasn't going to get you any preformance gain at all over IDE burners
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Response Number 4
Name: max00 Date: June 19, 2007 at 12:49:02 Pacific
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Cobra_R is absolutely correct, of course.
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Response Number 5
Name: OtheHill Date: June 19, 2007 at 15:07:58 Pacific
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The SATA burner can't be sharing the controller as it is SATA. SATA by thier very nature do not share the controller.
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Response Number 6
Name: max00 Date: June 19, 2007 at 16:08:50 Pacific
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Thanks OtheHill for the correction. I'm a dummy! Now I have no idea what the problem is.
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Response Number 7
Name: LenN (by Len N) Date: June 21, 2007 at 22:10:16 Pacific
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The HDD's are on ch0. Both sata drives are on ch1. They are not on the same channel.
I thought sata drives would be faster but also I have lots of sata ports and only two ide drives supported. I have a few old IDE drives that I wanted to put on the IDE controller and have.
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Response Number 8
Name: LenN (by Len N) Date: June 21, 2007 at 22:14:05 Pacific
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