SONY DVD RW DW-D150A slows down????

I have been movie a library of drum samples onto my computer, and the first DVD of 7.81 gb of samples transfered in about 11 minutes. Every other DVD transfers in about 45 minutes. Why would it slow down? All of the DVDs are equal size and its really bothering me.

you could flash the firmware of that sad optical Sony to that of NEC which it is anyway and probably have better performance. The situation you describe is not abnormal you could just do a re-start and avoid it.

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