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!"

Comments

It's no great shock

[stratjakt]

That these cd-r speeds are ramping up so quickly.

After all, they are using CAV not CLV to determine it's maximum speed.

2.5 minutes is impressive until you realize that yesterdays cd-r burned in 2.51 minutes.

Besides, it's no good for me.. Playstation and Xbox games don't come out reliably if burned any higher than 4x.

That's great and all, but...

[NineNine]

... I just want solid, reliable recording first. Sounds like the cart is being put before the horse first. I want a CD-R that's gonna burn perfectly every time. I don't care how fast it is. Burning something at 52x 4 times to get it to work (and making 3 coasters in the process) is slower than burning it at 12x. Besides, CD-R isn't generally a process that is needed to be done fast. It's for dupes or backups. Right now, I burn at 4x and it works every time. I won't go every faster until the drives/software are better.

Re:That's great and all, but...

[NineNine]

Part of the problem is that drives have no buffering, and the whole thing is reliant on the CPU. It's tough to burn CD's at a decent speed unless you have a 1Ghz+ (Intel speeds) CPU. And even then, from reading the other posts, it sounds like I'm not the only one with problems burning at higher speeds.

Re:That's great and all, but...

[jridley]

Dude, you're doing something wrong. I burn at 32X all the time and it's been hundreds of discs since I've burned a coaster. I burn at least 2 or 3 discs a day, sometimes as many as 30 or 40 if I'm doing duping runs.

I used to burn lots of coasters until I gave up on crap quality blanks. I just buy Imations and Fujis when they're on sale for like $3 for 50 after rebate, and haven't had a problem since.

When I was buying the $4 for 200 unbranded crap at Office Clone, yeah, I was throwing away 10 out of 50, even burning at 8x.

I'm using a Sanyo OEM burner and a Teac laptop burner (which is only 24X) and a JVC 32X at work. The Sanyo was cheap and works as well as any recorder I've ever used.

Always buy a drive with buffer underrun protection. If you're burning under Windows, make sure the drive is running in DMA mode, not PIO, or you'll have about 300 underruns burning a disc over 8X. Also beware; Windows sometimes SAYS it's in DMA mode but really it's in PIO; check Google for registry tweaks to fix it.

How to shatter a cd at 100x

[Anonymous Coward]

I recall there was some experimentation to determine the maximum possible speed for existing cd drivers. What was found was that as one approached 100x, the physical media commonly used today would shatter. Sorry captain, she just wont take it! So, unless materials used for cd's change, there is an upper limit to this cd x speed madness...

comparison to LiteOn 52x?

[h0tblack]

I wonder how this compares to other 52x drives out there like the LiteOn 52x24x52?

Yea but....

[Chicane-UK]

I find that the faster you burn CD's at, the more regular CDROM drives have issues reading them. And this isnt with cheap media either - I always use Sony or TDK or similar.

We have a nice 30 something speed plextor CDRW at work, but whenever I burn something there, I set it down to about 12 or 16 speed to make sure its going to work ok on my Pioneer DVD drive at home.