BlizzardUK Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 (edited) My IMGBurn is set to 80MB buffer and has been for the last 10+ years I have used it. I don't normally notice buffer issues but today I was burning to a DVD drive and BD drive at the same time from the same HDD and the buffer kept running out every 30 seconds or so on the blu-ray disc. I was burning the BD in IMGBurn and the DVD via my Bravo 2 PTPublisher. I realise burning 2 devices from the same hard drive is not advised, but this made me curious, given I have 32GB ram would increasing the buffer to the max 1gb help in these incidences when I forget ? For instance today I forgot I was burning from the same HDD (I use a drive pool to form a single drive letter from multiple HDDs, sometimes the ISO's end up on the same drive) and so once the BD was started I couldn't change buffer or cancel without ruining a disc, so I had to let it run with the buffer (default 80MB) going up and down like a yoyo which worried me a bit. So if I set it to the max 1gb just in case this happens again, is there any negatives to this and to leaving it set to 1gb all the time ? I only ever seem to use a max of 16gb of my 32gb ram so I have 16gb spare 99.9% of the time so 1gb poached shouldn't harm me from that point of view. Can I do the same for the Build tool buffer which I use all the time as well ? Just noticed in an old post from 2007 the author of IMGBurn mentions IMGBurn has a pause button, where is this located ? Also I notice my external USB 3.0 BD Drive is showing up as USB 2.0 in the IMGBurn logs, is this normal ? Or could it be due to the 10m USB distance I have the drive at (using powered repeaters) ? Thanks for the great software. Edited February 22, 2021 by BlizzardUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 I can't answer the buffer question (Typoed bugger at first! ) but I can answer the Pause one. The pause function is a sub feature of the red cancel button. When you press the red Cancel button during a burn, you're offered 3 choices: to Cancel, to Pause, and to Resume. However, it is NOT advised to Pause a write function as most of the time, writing cannot resume properly and you've effectively wasted a disc. I believe if you select the Pause function, ImgBurn tells you it may not properly resume writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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