i read that things like defraging your hard drive and closing other programs can increase your rate of good burns. also one of the tutorials said "computer under 3 years old and prossesor at leased P4 3.0GHz"
why does it matter? it doesnt make sence to me, its just burning. i can see why you would want a good burner, but why CPU and system recorces. could someone explain it to me?
thanks

Because your system needs to be fast enough to make sure it can provide a steady supply of data to the burner. If your systems is backed up with having to dedicate resources to other applications this data stream could become interrupted causing a failed or bad burn.

im not using no 3 gig processor and im doing just fine, amd 2500+ with 2 gigs of ram. just dont use ur pc while burning your back up and you should be good.

on a side note from time to time ill use my laptop to burn the back up and its a amd athlon 64x2 dual core tk55 1.8ghz and 2 gigs of ram and was buring using an external sony and had no issues