[jindrich]

hi, how fast is your superdrive when copying and burning?

i bought mein aluminium 1.25 almost a year ago, wich means i got the x2 superdrive model (that's i can burn a DVD-R at x2 speed).
it has been replaced for a new one because it had reading problems. But what amazes me is that BOTH are very slow when copying (transfering) data.
for example, it takes around 10 minutes to copy a whole CD (data) to HD but surpringsinly only 5 minutes or so to burn the same data (to a CD).
is this normal? shouldnt it copy/transfer at x24??

i believe a x2 superdrive unit is a:
2x DVD-R writer
1x DVD-RW writer
16x CDR writer
8x CDRW writer
24x CD reader !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (but mine is x8)

am i right? does your behave strangely?
thx in advance

[benwhanlee]

i have the same model and mine doesn't take nearly as long to read data from. that doesn't sound right to me.

[jindrich]

hey benwhanlee,
how long does it take then? 7-8 minutes?

what's extrange is that the both the default superdrive and the replaced one read data quite slow. i was initally shocked at how slow they were, coming from an ibook and a titanium, but a i never had a superdrive then, thought that maybe cd burners were mucht faster reading cd data than dvd burners (superdrive)

could the reason be be something else in my powerbook ?

[benwhanlee]

Originally posted by jindrich:
hey benwhanlee,
how long does it take then? 7-8 minutes?

what's extrange is that the both the default superdrive and the replaced one read data quite slow. i was initally shocked at how slow they were, coming from an ibook and a titanium, but a i never had a superdrive then, thought that maybe cd burners were mucht faster reading cd data than dvd burners (superdrive)

could the reason be be something else in my powerbook ?

let me try to test some out at home so i can give you a more accurate time estimate for this...

i can tell you this, when i load a cd into my itunes, (set to convert to aac files at 224 kbps), the drive will be reading at anywhere between 10x - 15x speed.

i don't know if this would affect it or not, but i'd make sure that you have your processor speed set to 'highest' under energy savings options in system preferences.