How does downloading/browing affect DL burning?

[DJF-UK]

I was just wondering if downloading or browsing the internet affects duel layered burning or the burner?

 

Whenever I seem to click on links the buffer seems to drop and just wanted to know if using the internet at all has any affect on the burning of the disc

 

Thanks!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If you're burning from a drive that another program (the OS, Internet Explorer etc) starts using too, it could interrupt the flow of data to ImgBurn. When that happens, the amount stored in ImgBurn's internal buffer may drop off a bit. It's only when it reaches zero that the drive basically has to 'pause' and wait for more data - even that isn't really a problem these days. Usually these interruption are pretty short and the buffer should recover quickly - after all, you're probably burning at less than 10MB/s and modern desktop drives can usually manage 80-100MB/s+ pretty easily.

 

Mechanical hard drives are much better (quicker) at sequential access than they are at random access so if your drive starts thrashing around, you know the buffer levels are going to be dropping off.

[DJF-UK]

If you're burning from a drive that another program (the OS, Internet Explorer etc) starts using too, it could interrupt the flow of data to ImgBurn. When that happens, the amount stored in ImgBurn's internal buffer may drop off a bit. It's only when it reaches zero that the drive basically has to 'pause' and wait for more data - even that isn't really a problem these days. Usually these interruption are pretty short and the buffer should recover quickly - after all, you're probably burning at less than 10MB/s and modern desktop drives can usually manage 80-100MB/s+ pretty easily.

 

Mechanical hard drives are much better (quicker) at sequential access than they are at random access so if your drive starts thrashing around, you know the buffer levels are going to be dropping off.

 

So browsing or downloading will not determine the success or failure of a duel layered burn?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Nope.

 

Success or failure is totally down to the drive/firmware/media combo.

 

If it can't write to a bit of the disc, that's when it will error out - and you downloading / browsing has nothing to do with that.

[DJF-UK]

Nope.

 

Success or failure is totally down to the drive/firmware/media combo.

 

If it can't write to a bit of the disc, that's when it will error out - and you downloading / browsing has nothing to do with that.

 

Thanks for that!

 

I've been stopping my downloads everytime I burn a disc -.-

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If your buffer is all over the place during the burn, that's not a bad idea.

 

If it's rock solid, there's really no need.