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Alcohol 120% allows 54x burn speed?
While trying to burn two different ISO files to two different CDs in two
different CD-R writers (one being a DVD±RW drive), I came across Alcohol 120%'s Multiple Burners feature. Interested, hoping it would clearly allow two different images to be burned (to be disappointed only to realize it allows multiple copies), I clicked it. On the following screen, I had two check boxes, corresponding to the different drives. Checking off my 52x Liteon drive, I saw the speed setting underneath. After clicking the drop-down menu, I was intrigued by the 2nd setting, that of 54x (8100kb/s). Choosing that, I proceeded to the next screen, hoping that I could shave 1-2 seconds off my burn time. Disappointed, my media is only rated for 52x and I couldn't burn at 54x. However, this must raise the question, where are the 54x CD-R(W) drives? I doubt they'll ever want to increase beyond 52x, given the current craze over DVD writers. So, if the drives don't exist, why is it even an option? Shouldn't it either be removed from the software, or created by hardware makers? |
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54X drives do exist, I think there's one from Mitsumi, for one. I don't see
it being that widely adopted - the requirements for disc pressing quality, balance, etc. are already pretty critical at 52X, they'd be more so at 54X. A few manufacturers made readers that go up to 56X (Afreey is one, I think), but they're apparently quite noisy. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ "Anonymous Joe" wrote in message news:r1jnb.34752$ao4.68925@attbi_s51... While trying to burn two different ISO files to two different CDs in two different CD-R writers (one being a DVD±RW drive), I came across Alcohol 120%'s Multiple Burners feature. Interested, hoping it would clearly allow two different images to be burned (to be disappointed only to realize it allows multiple copies), I clicked it. On the following screen, I had two check boxes, corresponding to the different drives. Checking off my 52x Liteon drive, I saw the speed setting underneath. After clicking the drop-down menu, I was intrigued by the 2nd setting, that of 54x (8100kb/s). Choosing that, I proceeded to the next screen, hoping that I could shave 1-2 seconds off my burn time. Disappointed, my media is only rated for 52x and I couldn't burn at 54x. However, this must raise the question, where are the 54x CD-R(W) drives? I doubt they'll ever want to increase beyond 52x, given the current craze over DVD writers. So, if the drives don't exist, why is it even an option? Shouldn't it either be removed from the software, or created by hardware makers? |
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