> I've never quite got this speed burning issue. Surely its a fairly well > known fact, that the faster you burn a CD, the more chances of it failing > (reliability wise).
Hi Paul, I'm not sure that is necessarily true. I read somewhere that the drive speed is dictated by the intensity of the laser. The more powerful it is the faster the drive can spin, as it takes the beam less time to "burn" the data onto the laser sensitive medium. I have a 48x burner and have never had a CD fail - I used to get loads of failures with my old 4x one. That being said the 48x does sound like the air intake on a Jumbo when it starts writing! >I just installed a basic CD/DVD > drive on my G4, took about 2 minutes to install, cost �30, works like a > dream. What kind of Mac did you install it into? I'd like to do the same with a DVD RAM drive I have but am not sure where to get the spring hinged front panel from - do you know? I have a Quicksilver, the one with the 2 cigar shaped do-da's on the front. TIA Simon. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
