Why is disk copy so stinking sloooowwwww?!?!?!

On my Windows-based laptops I can copy a data cd or a DVD in under 10 minutes. On the Mac, using the disk utility, it takes an hour just to read in the image from disk before it starts to burn. Why???
Is there any way to speed this up because it's just plain ridiculous.
Using the standard instructions file:new:image from ...
have tried both read-only and compressed, no difference in speed
saved to disk, ejected source disc an hour later once the image was read in
insert blank and burn

There are a lot of variables here including the maximum read speed of the drive, the amount of data on the disc, the amount of error correction that must be applied in reading said data off of the disc and the amount of contiguous space available on the hard drive. An hour certainly seems a bit excessive, but it could be that the drive pickup is simply having trouble reading that particular brand of media. I just imaged a Tiger installation DVD in under 10 minutes.

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