{"id":133,"date":"2006-05-15T21:19:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T11:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2006\/05\/15\/just-because-we-can-doesnt-mean-its-going-to-work\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T23:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:59:23","slug":"just-because-we-can-doesnt-mean-its-going-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2006\/05\/15\/just-because-we-can-doesnt-mean-its-going-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because we can doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s going to work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some more DVD-R discs the other day and they were rated at 8x &#8211; keeping in mind what I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/09\/17\/why-wont-you-let-me\/\">wrote about DVDR drives, DVD media and what the drive firmware lets you do<\/a> I got some Memorex DVD-Rs &#8211; their data code is <em>CMC MAG. AE1<\/em> and they are (according to the DVD-R unit&#8217;s firmware) ok for both 8x,4x &#8211; great &#8211; will now see if my theory was correct.<br \/>\nIt was &#8211; We now have the option of burning at either 8x or 4x. WooHoo. Half the time to do a burn. Burn went quickly &#8211; could see the files in the DVD-ROM after burning &#8211; great.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It was only later that I realised I should&#8217;ve checked &#8211; just because the drive\/firmware and disc themselves are all &#8220;ok&#8221; for an 8x burn doesn&#8217;t mean your PC hard drives are. The drives on this (now by current standards) old PC just weren&#8217;t able to keep up at 8x (11,000k\/sec) and ended writing &#8220;rubbish&#8221; in some areas &#8211; it seems it couldn&#8217;t keep up at times.<\/p>\n<p>*Sigh* &#8211; it wrote, but wrote rubbish &#8211; back to burning at 4x until we get a faster machine that can handle DVD-R burns at 8x.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some more DVD-R discs the other day and they were rated at 8x &#8211; keeping in mind what I wrote about DVDR drives, DVD media and what the drive firmware lets you do I got some Memorex DVD-Rs &#8211; their data code is CMC MAG. AE1 and they are (according to the DVD-R [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}