Need Help: Wat is 'buffer' and its usage????
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Sounds like you should ask this in the Storage forum.
Anyway...
Assuming you refer to a cd-burner, the buffer is a temporary storage for the data that is being sent to your cd during the writing process. The larger it is, the better.
If you have buffer-underrun protection like Burnproof, this keeps the buffer from running "dry" or empty, so your cd-writer will only write when there is something in that buffer, otherwise it halts until the buffer refills again.
Very important if you have a slow CPU or a big workload going while burning.
Without this protection, you would end up with a coaster.
SCSI-burners are less prone to produce coasters, as they do not rely so much on CPU-availability.
Anyway...
Assuming you refer to a cd-burner, the buffer is a temporary storage for the data that is being sent to your cd during the writing process. The larger it is, the better.
If you have buffer-underrun protection like Burnproof, this keeps the buffer from running "dry" or empty, so your cd-writer will only write when there is something in that buffer, otherwise it halts until the buffer refills again.
Very important if you have a slow CPU or a big workload going while burning.
Without this protection, you would end up with a coaster.
SCSI-burners are less prone to produce coasters, as they do not rely so much on CPU-availability.
The buffer, in ancient times, was the only thing that kept you from burning a bad CD.
The buffer is data that is temporarily stored in memory for fast access. This helps your comptuer keep up with the demand of a fast CD-RW for example. Otherwise, your hard drive may not be fast enough to allow the CD-RW to do its job, and then things get out of sync... Giving you a bad CD.
Nowadays, the buffer is next to useless. The reason being is "buffer underrun technology" allows the CD-RW to stop and begin recording at any point on the CD. So if the buffer runs out because your computer can't keep up with the burner, the CD-RW will actually stop and pickup where it last screwed up.
That's about as basic as I can explain it anyway. Hope that helps.
The buffer is data that is temporarily stored in memory for fast access. This helps your comptuer keep up with the demand of a fast CD-RW for example. Otherwise, your hard drive may not be fast enough to allow the CD-RW to do its job, and then things get out of sync... Giving you a bad CD.
Nowadays, the buffer is next to useless. The reason being is "buffer underrun technology" allows the CD-RW to stop and begin recording at any point on the CD. So if the buffer runs out because your computer can't keep up with the burner, the CD-RW will actually stop and pickup where it last screwed up.
That's about as basic as I can explain it anyway. Hope that helps.
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