What is the fastest cd rom drive money can buy?

[Aleksandar]

whel?

 

[So]

Plain old CD? Not RW, not DVD?

No question, The Kenwood True-X 72x, haven't made it in years though.

I :heart: mine. (It's been trucking along since '99, but it's now in a secondary rig b/c I want to watch DVD's)

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: So
Plain old CD? Not RW, not DVD?

No question, The Kenwood True-X 72x, haven't made it in years though.

I :heart: mine. (It's been trucking along since '99, but it's now in a secondary rig b/c I want to watch DVD's)

What happened to their multi-beam technology anyway? Didn't someone buy it out to develop for use with DVDs or something?

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

As far as physical spin (the one mentioned above uses extra lasers to get faster speed) 52x is the limit a cd can handle before you risk having one shatter.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle

Originally posted by: So
Plain old CD? Not RW, not DVD?

No question, The Kenwood True-X 72x, haven't made it in years though.

I :heart: mine. (It's been trucking along since '99, but it's now in a secondary rig b/c I want to watch DVD's)

What happened to their multi-beam technology anyway? Didn't someone buy it out to develop for use with DVDs or something?

They had trouble manufacturing them to work reliably, many people had ones that were obscenelt finicky about discs, and they had a pretty high return rate, akaik, they just stopped development. When you got one that worked, however, they were truly sweet.

 

[PhlashFoto]

I have a 72 Tru-X model that i bought in Feb of 2000 and a manufacture date of January of 2000. I havent used it in about 3 years... since ive moved up to scsi readers and then dvd rom... but its in a secondary comp waiting to be finished built. It has worked flawless for me....

 

[VirtualLarry]

If you are talking about real physical read speed, then the EPO 58X IDE CD-ROM is the fastest that I know of. However, that speed rating may just be an up-rated 56X drive, measured at 58X max at the end of an 80min or 90min CD.

I still have my Afreey 56X (max) IDE drive, and love it, although I don't think that you can find them anymore. (52X max now). It once glitched during some testing that I did, and it actually spun up to 60X max speed! I suppose, therefore, that it might be possible to hack the firmware to do that all the time, but I don't think it would be worthwhile. The increase in noise going from 56X to 60X was substantial, I thought that I might shatter actually shatter a CD for once. (Thankfully, it didn't, and I have never worried about it running it at 56X speed either. Most media I have isn't high-enough quality to rip at 56X anyways, so I go for a 32X P-CAV rip speed.)

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
If you are talking about real physical read speed, then the EPO 58X IDE CD-ROM is the fastest that I know of. However, that speed rating may just be an up-rated 56X drive, measured at 58X max at the end of an 80min or 90min CD.

I still have my Afreey 56X (max) IDE drive, and love it, although I don't think that you can find them anymore. (52X max now). It once glitched during some testing that I did, and it actually spun up to 60X max speed! I suppose, therefore, that it might be possible to hack the firmware to do that all the time, but I don't think it would be worthwhile. The increase in noise going from 56X to 60X was substantial, I thought that I might shatter actually shatter a CD for once. (Thankfully, it didn't, and I have never worried about it running it at 56X speed either. Most media I have isn't high-enough quality to rip at 56X anyways, so I go for a 32X P-CAV rip speed.)

Wow. That's got to spin the discs insanely fast. I had a disc (Giants: Citizen Kabuto) blow up in a 16x/40x Pioneer DVD-ROM drive.