How long should a 4GB DVD take to write at 16x?

I'm backing up files on a Win XP pro Dell, 1GB of memory, 2.8Ghz, to a
DVD using Nero Express 6. In the dialog box while it's writing to the DVD,
the clock starts to count down from 5 minutes and it says it's writing at
22,160 KB/s. My math(could be wrong) says this should be done in that amount
of time. It takes about an hour. Any suggestions?

Steve

My own experience with a 16X DVD burner on a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4, XP home, 1
Gig RAM and Easy Media Creator 8 is that the actual time to write is highly
variable, and seems to depend strongly on file size. A few
multi-hundred-Meg files will burn in 6-7 minutes, but thousands of smaller
files can take the better part of an hour to burn (and to verify).


"Steve" <stevered@acadia.net> wrote in message
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> I'm backing up files on a Win XP pro Dell, 1GB of memory, 2.8Ghz, to a
> DVD using Nero Express 6. In the dialog box while it's writing to the DVD,
> the clock starts to count down from 5 minutes and it says it's writing at
> 22,160 KB/s. My math(could be wrong) says this should be done in that
> amount of time. It takes about an hour. Any suggestions?
>
> Steve
>

Yep, I agree with that exactly.
I'd also check to make sure it's still set to Ultra DMA mode 5 or at the
least 4.
http://www.google.com.au/search?sour...reset+dma+mode



"Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> My own experience with a 16X DVD burner on a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4, XP home, 1
> Gig RAM and Easy Media Creator 8 is that the actual time to write is
> highly variable, and seems to depend strongly on file size. A few
> multi-hundred-Meg files will burn in 6-7 minutes, but thousands of smaller
> files can take the better part of an hour to burn (and to verify).
>
>
> "Steve" <stevered@acadia.net> wrote in message
> news:134k9mkp4c4ilaa@corp.supernews.com...
>> I'm backing up files on a Win XP pro Dell, 1GB of memory, 2.8Ghz, to a
>> DVD using Nero Express 6. In the dialog box while it's writing to the
>> DVD, the clock starts to count down from 5 minutes and it says it's
>> writing at 22,160 KB/s. My math(could be wrong) says this should be done
>> in that amount of time. It takes about an hour. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
>