- Jan 13, 2001
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I see this topic surface every once and a while and while reading some articles over at CDRinfo, I've noticed that some drives have safeguards that must be overriden to achieve advertised speeds. Plextor even claims that its fastest burner is "reinforced" to contain the remnants of an exploding disk if such an event should occur. As an end user in a typical "safe" computer environment, that sounds kind of scary to me.
I understand that Sony's (48x) drive burns at 40x tops, however if you hold the EJECT button down after inserting a blank, this limit is overridden and 48x recording is possible. Furthermore, they are releasing a 52x drive and the firmware for that drive is floating on the net and it is possible to flash the 48x model to burn at 52x with no user intervention! I wonder what the risks are? Sounds like it would be fun to do perform some non destructive as well as destructive tests on these. Too bad I won't have the time. :|
-DAK-
I understand that Sony's (48x) drive burns at 40x tops, however if you hold the EJECT button down after inserting a blank, this limit is overridden and 48x recording is possible. Furthermore, they are releasing a 52x drive and the firmware for that drive is floating on the net and it is possible to flash the 48x model to burn at 52x with no user intervention! I wonder what the risks are? Sounds like it would be fun to do perform some non destructive as well as destructive tests on these. Too bad I won't have the time. :|
-DAK-