1. media is 16x
2. no
3. yes
4. not sure how fast those are supposed to be burning
5. samsung light scribe, its about 2 years old. (SH-S182M)
6. no
7. HDD to DVD
8. not running anything usually, but when i am running something the time to burn it doesn't seem to change
9. It never worked faster, I just always thought it should be able to burn faster than it is and never took the time to look into it until now, and some people say they've burned a full dvd in much less time
10. no

thanks for giving the questions to answer, i realize it takes your time to do things like that, but without it it makes it harder for me to know what info you need. I appreciate it, thanks.