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CDRW Drives Hit 52X Speeds
Sr.Mixalot writes "Just when you think you couldn't burn those shared MP3s any faster, Asus comes out with a 52X Burner. This review at Hot Hardware shows just how fast this drive is versus a Plextor 48X unit. Amazingly, this new breed of CDRW Drives can burn a complete 700MB CD in about 2.5 minutes!"
12x ought to be enough for everyone ;)
'They glow green during read operations and yellow/amber during writes.'
When is someone gonna post how to exchange the green LED for super duper bright blue?
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This sounds a like a perfect recipe for Senseless Explosion
I try to work out a lot, but sometimes it gets hard after a long strenuous work day. The one thing that does get me there time and time again is a good CD mix of my favorite (new) songs. Good music is key to a good workout.
That being said, I do want to burn my CDs in less than 10 minutes. I have a 32X burner so that I can make them in 2 minutes after quickly deciding what to put onto my new personal greatest hits CD.
I guess I could even make the (stretching it, I know) claim that my 32X burner has saved my life (or at least cut a few years off) due to the rigorous exercise that it has encouraged.
I guess that the higher numbers sound kind of cool, but when the thing has a glitch that flings the CD-R media out of the drive at 5000mph, nearly severing your head and wedging itself in your stereo, you've just gotta ask yourself "Is burning a CD 2 minutes faster worth the risk?"
That's still a lot slower than the matter generator on Star Trek. When the hell are we going to get those? :-D
or at least cut a few years off
I assume you meant has added a few years to your life. If your CD burner saved you life now only at the cost of a shorter life span then I am not sure that is a great endorsement.
That would be sooo nice... maybe our grandchildren will see it
CowboyNeal: It can burn a cd in 2.5 minutes.
Homer: Aww 2.5 minutes. I want it now!
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Come on people this is really amazing! a 9% increase! This is as great as when we went from 2x to 2.18x.
As an addendum to the above:
An excellent prank to play on a coworker or roomate is to put an extremly out of balance CD in their drive with the machine powered off. When the machine comes on the drive will spin up and scare the hell out of them.
Well, that's me sold - I can turn AOL CDs into pretty mulch for my garden!
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.