Burning large number of files

[PBlais]

I'm burning DVD +R DL disks of icon collections. The image is large with 188,000 files (yes that many) nested level of folders. The process starts out making the image to about 1/2 GB instantly then proceeds to about 25% then hits a wall. Thye speed declines steadily until it's ticking off about 3 files per second. The total image is atad over 7 GB but making it is quite long. the Image File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02). I'm thinking it's just a process of building the monster index that goes with it. Is there a better way to burn DVDs with a lot of files in it.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Are you actually making an image or burning directly to disc?

 

You should make an ISO first and then burn that to disc.

 

If your compilation contains loads of little files, turning off antivirus might help - each one will be scanned by AV when ImgBurn tries to read it and that'll slow things down.

[PBlais]

Are you actually making an image or burning directly to disc?

 

You should make an ISO first and then burn that to disc.

 

If your compilation contains loads of little files, turning off antivirus might help - each one will be scanned by AV when ImgBurn tries to read it and that'll slow things down.

 

 

Thanks I had not thought about anti virus. I had the same problem burning direct or to an image. I had burned some fine before so the issue of the anti virus may be the case. I need 3 disks to get the whole collection of 750,000 files and the first two disks took a long time (4 hours). I was pulling from a NAS over a 1 GBit Ethernet link but then copied them locally and tried it from a USB 3.0 disk. It helped but not really very much. The speed was so slow it was not an issue of the transport. I'm now sure it was not related to where I was pulling the data from but it had to be a reason related to access slowing it down. I had assumed it was because the index got so big it took longer to update but I now think that is not an indexed write to the file system.

 

I'll try with the Anti Virus off and post back.

[PBlais]

Log File tells all!

 

 

I 16:50:04 ImgBurn Version 2.5.6.0 started!

I 16:50:04 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1)

I 16:50:04 Total Physical Memory: 16,775,336 KB - Available: 11,234,772 KB

I 16:50:04 Initialising SPTI...

I 16:50:04 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 16:50:04 -> Drive 1 - Info: ATAPI iHOS104 WL0B (M:) (SATA)

I 16:50:04 -> Drive 2 - Info: DVDFab Virtual Drive 1.1 (O:) (SCSI)

 

I 16:50:04 -> Drive 3 - Info: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-880SA 1.13 (N:) (SATA) <- selected with Verbatim DVD+R DL 8x media

 

I 16:50:04 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM, 1 BD-ROM and 1 BD-ROM/HD DVD-ROM!

I 17:01:06 Operation Started!

I 17:01:06 Source File: C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Icons.mds

I 17:01:06 Source File Sectors: 3,498,240 (MODE1/2048)

I 17:01:06 Source File Size: 7,164,395,520 bytes

I 17:01:06 Source File Volume Identifier: Icons

I 17:01:06 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 3F754BB8003560F8

I 17:01:06 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.6.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER!

I 17:01:06 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn

I 17:01:06 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)

I 17:01:06 Destination Device: [2:0:0] PLEXTOR DVDR PX-880SA 1.13 (N:) (SATA)

I 17:01:06 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: MKM-003-00)

I 17:01:06 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x

I 17:01:06 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824

I 17:01:06 Write Mode: DVD

I 17:01:06 Write Type: DAO

I 17:01:06 Write Speed: MAX

I 17:01:06 Link Size: Auto

I 17:01:06 Lock Volume: Yes

I 17:01:06 Test Mode: No

I 17:01:06 OPC: No

I 17:01:06 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 17:01:06 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 11,080 KB/s (8x)

I 17:01:06 Book Type Setting: DVD-ROM

I 17:01:06 Advanced Settings - Force HT: No, Online HT: No, OverSpeed: No, SmartBurn: Yes

I 17:01:06 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,749,120

I 17:01:06 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: Copied From Original Disc

I 17:01:26 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Succeeded!

I 17:01:26 Filling Buffer... (40 MB)

I 17:01:27 Writing LeadIn...

I 17:01:28 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3498239)

I 17:01:28 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3498239)

I 17:01:28 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1749119)

I 17:09:21 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1749120 - 3498239)

I 17:17:16 Synchronising Cache...

I 17:17:21 Closing Track...

I 17:17:22 Finalising Disc...

I 17:17:57 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:16:50

I 17:17:57 Average Write Rate: 7,388 KB/s (5.3x) - Maximum Write Rate: 11,203 KB/s (8.1x)

I 17:17:57 Cycling Tray before Verify...

W 17:18:03 Waiting for device to become ready...

I 17:18:18 Device Ready!

I 17:18:32 Operation Started!

I 17:18:32 Source Device: [2:0:0] PLEXTOR DVDR PX-880SA 1.13 (N:) (SATA)

I 17:18:32 Source Media Type: DVD+R DL (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: MKM-003-00)

I 17:18:32 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x

I 17:18:32 Image File: C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Icons.mds

I 17:18:32 Image File Sectors: 3,498,240 (MODE1/2048)

I 17:18:32 Image File Size: 7,164,395,520 bytes

I 17:18:32 Image File Volume Identifier: Icons

I 17:18:32 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 3F754BB8003560F8

I 17:18:32 Image File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.6.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER!

I 17:18:32 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn

I 17:18:32 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)

I 17:18:32 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX

I 17:18:33 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3498239)

I 17:18:33 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3498239)

I 17:18:33 Verifying Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1749119)

I 17:23:54 Verifying Layer 1... (LBA: 1749120 - 3498239)

I 17:29:18 File Successfully Deleted: C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Icons.iso

I 17:29:18 File Successfully Deleted: C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Icons.mds

I 17:29:18 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:10:39

I 17:29:18 Average Verify Rate: 10,966 KB/s (7.9x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 15,583 KB/s (11.3x)

 

 

From 24 plus hours to burn to about 16 minutes. I can live with that(: Odd part was It took me a long time to make the image with the AVAST anti virus monitor on and even just burning the image took 2 hours so even if you make the image first it was taking a long time. On another computer Microsoft security essentials was not so bad and was 4 times faster burning the image.

 

Turning off the anti virus monitor was the ticket.