slow DVD burn speed

[mentaluproar]

I remember reading that the iMac DVD drives are set not to exceed a certain speed so that they remain quiet, but I would rather the occasional disc burns take less time than be silent and keep me waiting. Is there any way to speed this up?

I'm using toast titanium 10 and the speed never goes past 5x for dvds.

 

[mentaluproar]

it's seldom used, and works just fine. I've never had a coaster. I just want the thing to work as fast as it was designed to.

 

[Hellhammer]

The SuperDrive are crap, total crap. What discs are you using? 5x doesn't sound too bad

Optical drive

Slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Writes DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL discs at up to 4x speed
Writes DVD-R and DVD+R discs at up to 8x speed
Writes DVD-RW discs at up to 6x speed and DVD+RW discs at up to 8x speed
Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
Writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed
Writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed
Reads CDs at up to 24x speed

If you burn a lot DVDs, get an external DVD drive