this drive that dont write at 8
http://img444.imageshack.us/i/badx.png/
and this does
http://img94.imageshack.us/i/goodf.png/
Looks as your drive decided that 6x was the best write approach on the first posted image.
Could be worth a try to enable this setting in the settings, to see if it sticks to 8x in the future.