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In article <3F992D7C.AA78D99D@soc.soton.ac.uk>, 
James Perrett <James.R.Perrett@soc.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> 2. Blokes I know who are doing a lot of file swapping of *very* large
>> files as part of the job (GIS images etc.) tell me that the *only*
>> reliable way of writing CD_Rs is at speeds not exceeding 4x.  At
>> anything above this the error rate is unacceptable.  (Not that errors
>> are acceptable at any time; but it's a trade-off between speed and the
>> need to repeat the exercise until you get a good copy.)  [Temperature
>> is not an issue in this case as they work in airconditioned offices.]
>
>From first hand experience I can tell you that this is not true. With
>the drives that I use (mainly Plextors) I get lowest error rates at
>speeds in the middle of the drive's range. For an old drive this might
>be 4X but more modern drives are best at 16 or 24X.

Fair enough, Jim.  I probably should have qualified my generality by 
pointing out they work for the "govmint" -- "modern" is not in their 
vocab.  ;-)

>Anyone giving you hard and fast rules about burning speed should not be
>trusted - the optimum speed is totally down to the particular
>burner/media/reader combination and will be different for every user.

Surely there aren't more "burner/media/reader" combinations than 
users?  8-)


Cheers, Phred.

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