Anyone else "overclocked" their CD-RW?

[Jittles]

Just wondering.

I made my 8x into 10x and it works great.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

how did you do that? Firmware update?

 

[Jittles]

Flashed it to a different, higher level drive.

mines an HP so it was easy to go up to the 10x
No higher though, cause the technology gets different. Such as BurnProof and whatnot.

 

[bacillus]

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[bacillus]

oops. looks like temporary server problems at that link!

 

[Andy22]

Jittles: What brand drive did you do that to? I would love to upgrade my Plextor 8/4/32 to a 10x.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

<< check out this page, NelsonMuntz! >>


Yeah, that's a page I usually chek out daily, but it looks like they are having problems today. Maybe I'll try another day. I do know about firmware updates (I bought an Acer without seamless link because of an old firmware, and then I upgraded to a new firmware to get seamless link). I just didn't know that it could cause speed increases.

 

[gygheyzeus]

Question tho: is this at all safe to do? I mean, how good of a chance to you have to wreck your CDRW drive?

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Its about the sme level as flashing the BIOS on your motherboard. As long as you follow the instructions and do things carefully, you should be fine.

 

[SleepyGuy]

yep ricoh 4x4x20 is still going strong at 6x4x20... hehe... for 3 years now.

 

[Jittles]

<< mines an HP so... >>



That answer the brand question?

 

[Andy22]

I have a Plextor 8/4/32 and would like to flash it with the 12/4/32 formaware release but what concerns me is going back to 8/4/32 if it doesn't work with the new one. Don't the Plextor's prevent you from going back to an older firmware?

I'd hate to hose it up after just getting my system rebuild completed.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

IMHO it is not a good idea to flash firmware that is not designed for your burner. The only firmware (or BIOS for that matter) that I flash is provided by the manufacturer to replace a previous version. Unless one got lucky and they had the same firmware revision for one as they did for a faster one, it will not generally increase perfomance.

 

[Andy22]

Thanks Nelson...that's what I was looking for.