Speedy DVD Burns – Part 2: Gotta Burn Fast

In the previous segment, I examined scanning speeds for a few of my DVD writers that could perform quality scanning. While we didn’t exactly decide that deviating from 4x CLV scanning was a good idea, we did at least see some evidence that scans up to 8x CAV may not deviate so much and that slower is not necessarily better, but everything is somewhat drive-dependent as well. In this section, I continue this experiment from 2024 with the meat of the experiment – to see whether drives got better at burning at high speeds and whether 16x (and faster) burns could be done safely, contrary to the wisdom to either keep it at half-rated speed or 4x. Drives For this round-up, I used the three media indicated in Part 1 (CMC MAG M01, MCC 004 and RITEK F16). To burn these discs, I tested the following drives: Optiarc (HP) AD-7250H5 Lite-On DH16A6L Lite-On DH16AFSH Asus DRW-24D5MT Pioneer DVR-108 Pioneer DVR-111L BenQ DW1640 BenQ DW1650 LG GH24NSB0 LG (HP) GH40L LG (HP) GH60L Lite-On iHAS624 A NEC…