52X24X52 Liteon CDRW ! ****with link****

[NoviceB]

Does anyone know if Windows XP SP1 have built-in support for Mt. Rainer drives.

 

[MichaelD]

My Liteon 48x burner will burn Fuji 16x CDRs at 40x. When copying audio CDs at that speed, sometimes the copies aren't "crisp sounding." However, 32x is a perfect copy. I won't be upgrading until 8x DVD burners are under $100. IOW, in 2025, I'll get my DVD burner.

 

[Mavrick007]

Anyone hear if you can update the firmware of the Liteon 40x to 52x24x52x?
I know that you can update the 40x burners to 48x, but I would doubt that you can do the same with the newest firmware even on the 48x burner (to 52x).

 

[Eug]

The last compelling CD writing speed increase was 24x. Since then, it has all
been modest incremental improvements in speed that really kick in only for long
source CDs.

Agreed. I couldn't care less if a drive was a 40X or a 24X. The increased speed is really only at the end of the disc anyway.

His quote: "Given the deficiencies of
the burners and the properties of the CD blanks, ALL our tests show that
if you go beyond 24x you risk creating discs with substantial errors. These results
hold across every manufacturer and every brand of blank. "

Yep. I never burn off-brand media at faster than 16X if the stuff is important, even if the discs claim 32X compatibility. I stick to the good brands that are officially 24X rated for the few times I will burn 24X.

Is that a prediction just on price? I would say less than $150 for a decent one, one probably will be able to find cheap ones for less than that.

Well, the Panasonic LF-D311 hit $165 already last week. (However, it's up to $178 again this week. 😛)

This thing only does 1X, but that's around 9X in terms of CD writing. Also, remember that for DVD, 1X means 1X, and 2X means 2X (and twice as fast as 1X), which brings me to another point:

A 24X CD-RW drive burning a 74 minute CD-R takes around 4 minutes. That's a real-life speed of around 18.5X.

A 2X DVD-R drive burning a 4.7 GB (4.37 GB) takes around 28:15 minutes. That's a little more than 18X.

Thus a 2X DVD-R burns as fast as a 24X CD-R.

And the 4X DVD-R drives are coming out very soon... 😀