Our friends from CDRLabs already spotted this one, but Aopen is coming with a new drive that supports up to 50x reading of CD discs. The drives writes CD-Rs at a maximum of 48x CAV and to CD-RW discs at 12x CLV. The drive has JustLink and JustSpeed to determine the right writing strategy and to prevent buffer underruns. The buffer underrun protection also includes a 2MB buffer.
The most intresting option most people will notice is probably the 50x reading speed. You can only get this speed by enabling the Speed Boost function. 50x is likely just more a marketing trick as it's only 2x faster then 48x reading which is to most people more then enough and might in the end even make your CDs explode.
Speed Boost Function: |
AOpen's CRW4850 CD/ReWriter drive offers "Speed Boost Function". Pls Keeping Push Eject Button for over 5 second,then the busy indicator LED will flash two times.The CD reading speed will decrease from 40X to 50X.Thus will reduce our driver's Noise and Vibration.
Faster Speed:
AOpen's CRW4850 CD/ReWriter drive offers unprecedented performance to handle today's demands by reading CD's at up to 50X speed, writing CD-R disc at super 48X and CD/RW discs at fastest 12X speed. CRW4850 writes a 700 MB CD-R disc within 3 minutes.
High Versatility:
The CRW4850 is an ideal all-in-one solution for reading CD's, copying audio/software CD's, creating photo/audio/video CD's, or acting as a storage drive for archiving or backup. The drive comes complete with everything you need to make CD's right away, including bundled software and blank CDs. You can write and read large data files as easily as you would from floppies.
High Reliability:
An improved anti-heat design and the OPC design boost recording reliability. Optimum Power Control continually monitors signal levels during recording and adjusts laser power to compensate for a dirty disc. This feature ensures a flat signal, significantly enhancing reliability.
The question is if people will trust 50x reading times. As we already posted about CDs that exploded at these reading speeds.
Note that reading and writing is different and writing at high speed gives less problems then reading at high speed. More info on that can be found at this document (Section: The difference between read speed versus write speed) on the Plextor website.
Source: Aopen.com
