General question about buffers

[funnel71]

I don't burn movies any faster than 6x on my Pioneer as they can get choppy if you go any faster. The Pioneer has a 2MB buffer.

I've seen listings for Plextor drives with an 8MB buffer. Would this larger buffer assist in burning movies faster without the choppiness, or not?

[moomsman]

no; at high speed the DVD transfers more than 8MB per second so try to set tour ard drive in U-DMA 66 min and or/defragment.
if this is isn't enough; buy a new HDD for your DVD burns....

[Arrow]

In my opinion a bigger buffer than 2MB is completely useless if you do not use package writing.

[drpino]

it's not completely useless...

multiple recorder burning, burning while other HDD intensive tasks are going on, etc etc all benefit from having an 8mb buffer...