On Friday, July 16, 2004, at 09:40 PM, flawed jai wrote:
a point i 've never heard adequately discussed before-- when it comes to cd speeds, what is the rule of thumb? i have seen cd rom's that can read at 2x and seen speeds at everything in between, up to 50- something. are the fast ones capable of handling data that was burned onto disc at all the speeds that came before, but the slow ones can't take anything faster than their own speed?
No. All CD-roms need to be readable at red book speeds, which is 1X. The higher-speed drives can read data at the higher speeds.
so if my machine shipped with a poky 2x is it stuck at that?
THe drive is rated to the highest seed at which it can read data, so yeah a 2x drive will read at a max of 2x speed.
and if i want to be able to read more recent cd's, i should replace the original cd rom in my 6360 with a faster one? can i replace it with a cd rw?
NO, to read more recent CD's you don't need to do anything, except, some older CD-Rom droves have problems reading CDR disks and very few can read CDRW disks; but that's not a speed thing.
Yes, you can replace it with a CDRW, but the fast modern CDRW's are all IDE. I don't think I've ever seen >24X with SCSI.
����how do i know how fast is too fast for the machine?
No such thing. The drive will throttle itself to the max speed possible on the bus; you won't get the rated speed, but it will read disks.
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