Recent content by Phane

The phyiscal limitation is currently the spin speed. We have CD-ROM's that are rated 50x max that sound like a jet airplane on takeoff when they spin up, and that just plain gets rediculous. The next problem in line is (or will be) bottleneck bus speeds. Sure, 66mb/s is fast, but cd-roms are...

Yeah, that's my experience with burning CD's. They are "rated" at a certain speed. So if you have CD-R's that are rated at 8x, then they should be (roughly) 99% reliable being burned at 8x. Burn 8x rated CD-R's at 12x and you might see problems, you might not. Depends on how lucky...

www.onvia.com has a really cool deal on the EIDE Plextor 12x/10x/32x CD-RW with Sanyo's Burn Proof technology. Surprised Anand hasn't reviewed this drive yet, cause it seems to be the best imo. I got it for $199.99 tax and shipping *overnight* for free. Unfortunately it seems they're...