Are CD Burning speeds stopping at 52x?

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
CDs will not shatter at any feasable drive speed, they proved this on mythbusters....the only CD they could get to shatter was one that they had put in the equivalent of a 300X "CD Drive"

Reports of CDs shattering in CD-ROM drives are not rare. In these cases, the drive speeds were rated somewhere around 48x-52x. At 52x the disc is rotating at about 10k rpm at which the outer diameter of the disc is moving at about 140 MPH, so you can imagine what "300X" would be like. I haven't watch that particular episode of Mythbusters although I have seen others and I would take their "proof" with a grain of salt. They're special effect specialists, not scientists or people with scientific background.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: MustISO
I still burn at 16X, maybe 24X if I'm in a hurry. I see no reason to burn any faster.

Completely agree. :thumbsup:

 

[Shawn]

I have a 12x lite-on burner and I burn at 8x.

 

[wahoyaho]

got a 52x but only have cheap 16x cds 😛 but they work wel. liteon too, no coasters

 

[sniperruff]

i think most CDR manufacturers stopped making CDR's and instead make the more profitable DVD'R's

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
CDs will not shatter at any feasable drive speed, they proved this on mythbusters....the only CD they could get to shatter was one that they had put in the equivalent of a 300X "CD Drive"

If they tested with new discs and didn't vary speed it's quite probably they wouldn't shatter. However, some discs get abused, develop faults, or are just defective at the factory. Any combination of the above is exagerated at higher speeds. Drive spinup/down a few times, and shattering is possible.

I've had family members who've experienced it, I suspect poor disc handling practices as the root cause. But those discs may otherwise have been fine in slower drives.

 

[Hammerhead]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
anybody seen the burners that etch words in the unburned section of the CD-R? What kind of burner does that?

That's Yamaha's DiscT@2

They must have stopped making those. I can't find them anywhere. I guess I'll check ebay.

 

[Kelemvor]

Go find the episode of MythBusters where they spin CDRs at insane speeds and watch them shatter and shrapnel gets embedded in the metal cae of the drive.

 

[Coldkilla]

Seriously, who needs a CD Burner any faster than that.. Unless you are starting a production company burning 10,000 CDs hourly.. I mean, thats honestly fast enough me thinks

 

[RelaxTheMind]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
And for the record, I have never gotten a CD to burn at 52x, with any brand of media.

Wow, odd. I've burnt dozens of CDRs at 52x. Liteon 52x CDRW using 52x Memorex 700MB CDRs and Nero. That's only for data cds. For music cds I have to slow it down to around 24x or they give me read problems in my stereos.

Same here....I don't think my Lite-On 52x ever burnt a coaster at 52x....even with crappy Officemax media.

your not really burning at 52x... starts out around 16x and unless u have enough data to fill a full cd it will burn at 52x for maybe 3 seconds.

 

[rh71]

anyone who uses a DVD burner to burn CDRs (plenty of us gave up CD burners long ago) won't care about faster CDR speeds any longer... they only care about DVDR speeds. 😉

 

[eelw]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
anybody seen the burners that etch words in the unburned section of the CD-R? What kind of burner does that?

That's Yamaha's DiscT@2

My friend had one. It's okay if you don't fill your disk to the max. Text was quite legible, but it does depend on the dye colour of the disk. Best colour was the blue disks. They provided the best contrast difference.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: rh71
anyone who uses a DVD burner to burn CDRs (plenty of us gave up CD burners long ago) won't care about faster CDR speeds any longer... they only care about DVDR speeds. 😉

I'd just be happy to find 16x dvd-r media

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: mugs
Actually, someone (Plextor?) had a 72x drive out a while back, I think it worked by using multiple beams to write to several "tracks" at once.

Edit: They apparantly weren't very popular, and I wouldn't expect to see anything over 52x ever. How fast do you need to go anyway? A 52x will burn a disc in 2-3 minutes

I think it was Kenwood...? It read at 72x ('truespeed' drive)..but it didn't write.

I always burn at 52x with my Lite-On drive..no problems yet. I haven't had any long enough to test longevity, though..I've only had the burner for two years or so..

 

[radioouman]

Kenwood made a 56x burner