Nitrius Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 (edited) Just wondering, my device buffer tends to stay at 100%, dipping down to 80%+- sometimes while burning, though the buffer gradually goes down towards 0 as the burning process gets closer to finished, is this normal? And do you gain anything by upping the buffer size from 40MB to 512MB for example? Edited November 14, 2009 by Nitrius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynthia Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Hi and welcome to the forum, Nitrius! Might be that you have the source file on your system disk (C:) and you or the system needs to access some other files and that makes the buffer drop a bit. If it just goes down to around 80% it sounds as no issue to be worried about. At the end of the burn the buffers empties as there is nothing more to read from the hard disk and the buffer empties out to the disc you are burning. I've tested to have it at 512MB and the only difference I could find was that it took longer time to start the burn, as there was more to fill in the buffer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmalves Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 The device buffer is queried from the burner and can vary a lot depending on the burner. Can you post the log of a burn where that happened? Look in ImgBurn's Help menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrius Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 (edited) The device buffer is queried from the burner and can vary a lot depending on the burner. Can you post the log of a burn where that happened? Look in ImgBurn's Help menu. The Device Buffer is fine, or it stays at 100% most of the time, its the other buffer am talking about, maybe its the imgburn buffer? Its the one above Device Buffer, it only says buffer, that's the one that slowly goes towards 0%. Though i had another burn, and it went down to 30% and then it gradually started to go up to about 50/55% before the burn was over. Anyway, if this is bad or not, i've had no problem with the cds/dvds i've burned, they seem to be working fine. I also tried a burn with the buffer size at 512, and then it stayed at around 98% the whole time. Edited November 15, 2009 by Nitrius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynthia Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 All burners today have buffer under run techniques so if the buffer should run "empty", it shouldn't be noticed on the final burned disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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