GigaRec

This is yet another relic of the Premium series. This burn mode allows to squeeze more data onto a CD-R by reducing the length of pits and lands relative to their etalon values. The user is offered several degrees of the “compression” the resulting capacity of the written disc depends upon.

The manufacturer honestly warns you that this burn mode creates a disc that may be unreadable in other optical drives. This risk is the higher if you select a higher compression degree. Moreover, the buffer underrun protection doesn’t work together with GigaRec, so the risk of damaging the blank is even higher. Despite the danger, this technology is quite popular among the users. Didn’t you have situations when you needed to put just a few dozens of megabytes more on the CD?

Silent Mode

As the name of this option suggests, its purpose is to reduce the noise produced by the drive. Noise is a real scourge of modern ultra-high-speed devices, so the opportunity of quieting the drive a little is really good. Of course, there exist third-party utilities that reduce the read speed of the optical drive, but here the user has more setup flexibility. Besides the manual limitation of the read speed, you can limit the burn speed as well as the speed of the disc tray. The disc spin-up time can also be controlled.