PS1/2 Best write speed for this iso?

[MassiveBrainlet]

I wanna burn an iso for Silent Hill 2 Greatest Hits edition onto a disc but I'm wondering what write speed to use. I have Verbatim DVD-r's. My possible speeds are 4x and 8x. Can anyone help me?

 

[Mythical]

The slower the better

 

[micp]

I wanna burn an iso for Silent Hill 2 Greatest Hits edition onto a disc but I'm wondering what write speed to use. I have Verbatim DVD-r's. My possible speeds are 4x and 8x. Can anyone help me?

I usually burn at 4x and don't have any problems using Verbs.

 

[FAST6191]

The slower the better

Not really.

Drive speed mattered back in the day when buffers amounted to about half a second of burning and the inks were crap.

Today we have buffers any size you like, quality lasers in the drives, hard drives that even if things were fragmented and you hammer it otherwise can probably still keep up (though I would still suggest not hammering the hard drive while you are burning), and inks are actually pretty good.

To that end whatever the rating the discs are at, or slightly lower than that if your hard drive might not do well.

Most failed burns these days I would expect to come from people not getting rid of a piece of a fluff on the disc before burning it.

 

[Mythical]

Not really.

Drive speed mattered back in the day when buffers amounted to about half a second of burning and the inks were crap.

Today we have buffers any size you like, quality lasers in the drives, hard drives that even if things were fragmented and you hammer it otherwise can probably still keep up (though I would still suggest not hammering the hard drive while you are burning), and inks are actually pretty good.

To that end whatever the rating the discs are at, or slightly lower than that if your hard drive might not do well.

Most failed burns these days I would expect to come from people not getting rid of a piece of a fluff on the disc before burning it.

We don't know his specs, and older computers are more likely to have disc drives slots than newer ones, and older computers are more likely to have this problem.

 

[FAST6191]

We don't know his specs, and older computers are more likely to have disc drives slots than newer ones, and older computers are more likely to have this problem.

Unless said old computer is a P3, P4 or similar then I doubt it.

Any computer likely still pressed into use today will be way beyond that.

 

[Alexander1970]

Hello.

I think,our beloved PlayStation 2 (especially the SCPH−300xx to SCPH−500xx Versions) is still very happy and thankful with 4x Speed burned Verbatims DVD-R´s
For Modchipped and also ESR Patched Games for FreeMC Boot.

Thank you.

 

[TunaKetchup]

Verbatim from Data Life Plus

Best brand for all burning

Choose AWS for burning or 4x

 

[Dothackjhe]

4x is the golden standard. It's the fastest rate you can opt to with no error in the output.

 

[Greenbuds420]

A good rule of thumb is "as slow as possible" but as others pointed out, that isn't always the case anymore.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Last time I did this, I used 8x and it was fine. Any DVD-R should be fine. I’ve used tdk, verbatim, phillips, and sony.