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Originally posted by SteveDallas
Do you know what the buffer on it is? It's possible (though unlikely) that it actually has a smaller buffer than your older one.
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My old burner (CED-8120B) had an 8MB buffer, but no buffer underrun protection whatsoever. The GCE-8520B has a 2MB buffer with SuperLink buffer underrun prevention. From everything I've read, either one of those _should_ be sufficient on a system that's this fast. The fact that I've had can't-reach-full-speed problems with two different CDRW drives points to something other than the drives themselves.
Slow hard drive, perhaps? Screwed-up drivers in Windows? (I am considering a reinstall of Win98 SE for other reasons, as soon as I get the energy together to reinstall all my apps as well. Perhaps that might help.)