Has the consumer market CD-writer speeds been maxed out?

[NiteKids]

I haven't seen the speed jump for 52X at all. Of course no cd writer writes at it's full speed untill it gets toward the edge of the disc. Also I don't know if hardware could keep up streaming enough data to burn even faster? What do you guys think?

[RayH]

Shhhhhhhhhhh....DVD wrilters are now $79 for 4x. I'm waiting for 12x DVD burners for $99!

[NiteKids]

Huh?

[Dputiger]

There's no point anymore. A 1x burner took about 80 minutes to burn a disc. A 2x burner cut that in half--40 minutes!

Fabulous!

But then, watch what happens. At 4x, we are up to 20 minutes per CD. 8x gets us to 10, 16x to 5, and 32x is 2.5 minutes. 52x is still 90 seconds--which means that to double in speed AGAIN we'd need to get up to 104x.

Law of diminishing marginal return comes down like an anvil at this point. There ARE 72x burners, but you'll have to search long and hard to find them. And honestly, I rarely burn above 24x just in case the media or drive hiccups. I normally prefer slow, careful burns to blazing fast ones, and its a rare day that I can't wait 5 minutes for a CD to finish.

[Rand Dusing]

Yah, unless you are burning cds constantly, why would you waste money on a superfast one?

[SPEEDO]

If they get much faster I wonder if the disks will hold up to the rpm's?

[tgxiii]

There's this show called Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel. They tested what RPM the CDs would shatter, and it turns out the CDs would break at around 30,000 RPM.

[nunyadam]

But then, watch what happens. At 4x, we are up to 20 minutes per CD. 8x gets us to 10, 16x to 5, and 32x is 2.5 minutes. 52x is still 90 seconds--which means that to double in speed AGAIN we'd need to get up to 104x.

ok so all i need now is a 208x burner and my cd's would be done before i ever started them! LOL

[NiteKids]

LOL

[noisedude]

of course for us musos there's always the problem of degrading quality on the high speeds. maybe most of you can't hear the difference between a music disk burned at 2x and 52x (or don't care).......but i can......