CD writer: Speed V/S Quality?

Question

When a CD is burning, we actually burn it with low speed for a good quality. My question is how the quality will be affected when all the bytes of file(s) will be written to CD irrespective of spped? Means even if you write the CD with high spedd, then also each & every byte of the file will be written. Then how quality may become low?

Answer 1

hi
how r u?
not always speed affects quality...but all depend on the quality of your CD-Writer...how....the buffer size...as biggest your buffer as quality your burn process....
but what is buffer....it is something like a carrier of the data...it reads from your Source and then prepare to write Destination...when u ask that to happen in high speed it may happen some loss as your buffer cannot afford...generally buffers now at my place "in Egypt are 2 MegaByte"...I dont know about your place....lets go back....if the buffer go big...the speed will not affect the effeciency of carring data to the destination CD...it is a matter of Buffering....and space available on your Hard drive system Partition.....so u help making it burning at low speed if u dont know the space available on your disk and u assume that the buffer rate is low....to know the buffer rate of your CD-Writer consult the manufacturer of it or just check its package...u will find that written on one of its sides....

i wish u got benefit...

thanks for reading

yours
Usama

Answer 2

There is no relationship between speed and quality - no one burn is any better than another. A burn will either work or fail. All working ones will be the same. A faster burn potentially can mean more failures but most drives will burn at an optimum speed. The quality of the media is a greater issue

Answer 3

UM - it's not so much a matter of quality as it is a matter of corruptibility. Audio/video files can be burnt at your burner's (and discs) highest available write speed, without any risk or quality loss or data corruption.

Data discs or .iso (disc-image) files however should NEVER be burnt at any high than x8 speed to avoid data corruption.