BJC1 submitted an article about CDR recording speeds and all kinds of things going with that. It's a pretty intresting article, so I chose some passages of the text for you to warm you up and get you to read the full article
From the beginning, CD-R has consistently exceeded expectation in reliability, compatibility, stability, cost, popularity, and performance. Even recently, 8X writing was considered the absolute speed limit but soon, 24X recorders will be hitting the street with still faster products in development. But be it CPU speed, hard drive capacity, or CD-ROM performance, there comes a time when further advances make little sense for most of us. Such is the case with ultra-speed Cd recording. |
Perhaps the most misunderstood dimension of ultra-speed recording is that increases in writing performance are only wholly realized when producing full discs. By way of technical explanation, Compact Discs were originally designed to operate using a Constant Linear Velocity (CLV) scheme to maintain uniform scanning velocity of the reading or writing optical head across the entire surface of the disc. The disc's rotation speed slows as the optical head reads or writes from the inner diameter to the outer diameter. At 1X CLV speed, the disc is spun at 500RPM when the optical head is operating at its inner diameter and slows to 200RPM at its outer diameter. So when recording at 16X CLV, for example, a disc spins between 8000 and 3200RPM from its inner to outer diameter.
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Source: Newssubmit
