ImgBurn is a lightweight CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray burning application. Currently ImgBurn is my favourite CD/DVD burning application.

The main reason behind the safe burning with ImgBurn is its buffer size. ImgBurn offers a maximum of 512MB buffer size for burning. Compared with Nero, you can only set the buffer size up to 80MB only and InfraRecorder allows you to set the buffer size up to maximum of 128MB. Buffers allows you to store the data that you want to burn in your RAM before the dara is being burned, which is faster than accessing the data from hard drive. Larger data allows you to store more data in RAM, thus reducing the buffer underrun. Usually, buffer underrun usually occor if the buffer is being filled at slower speed than the speed of data that being written to the disc. Heavy CPU or memory load from other concurrent tasks can easily exhaust the capacity of a small buffer, so larger buffer usually can prevent this from happened.

Setting Up ImgBurn to use 512MB Buffer

1. Run ImgBurn. Go to Tools > Settings.

2. Navigates to I/O tab (1). Click and drag the slider in Buffer Size area to maximum 512MB (2). Click OK (3) to save the setting.

As precaution, even though ImgBurn offers you a maximum buffer of 512MB, make sure you don't set the buffer size more than 50% of your RAM and don't use any resource intensive applications when burning CDs/DVDs. Usually, IM, internet surfing, watching video or listening to music won't interrupt your CD/DVD burning process.

If you are new with ImgBurn, you will need quite some time to learn how to use ImgBurn. ImgBurn is a freeware and it is available for Windows platform.

[Download: ImgBurn]