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#1 Trippster

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Posted 27 June 2008 - 05:24 PM

Hi,

I am not sure what happened but recently my cd-rom is only reading between 2x-5x lately. It use to read between 10x-18x. I am not sure what was caused this or how to go about diagnosing what is wrong so any help would be great, thanks.

Im on XP Pro sp2 and heres a link to the drive I have. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827106057

#2 Neil Jones

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 02:30 PM

CD speeds are theoretical maximums. A 20x is the maximum speed that you can write to a disk at, it means it can write that fast, but doesn't mean it will write that fast.

When burning disks a lot is dependent on the media used. Some cheap brands won't write faster than 8x. Older disks won't write faster than 4x or 2x. Read speeds on a CD unit are more dependent on system usage at the time more than anything else. Again, 48x speed read is a theoretical maximum.

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