[sdiy] OT: Scratchy CDs

[Tim Parkhurst]

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> OK this was certainly true a few years ago, when 4x burning was 'pretty
> darn fast' but in the 52x age you can actually destroy your cd's by
> overheating them when burning that slow, most recent burners won't allow
> such low speeds anyway. 
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Burning CDs at a slower rate heats them up more? I don't mean to sound
disrespectful, but I seriously doubt this. Burning CDs at a slower rate does
not change how long the laser stays on to burn a hole in the metal, it only
changes the rate at which data is passed along to the CD drive. I could be
wrong on this, but I have never seen any evidence of a slower write speed
causing the CD to get hotter. I really don't think it works that way.

Tim Servo

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." 
-James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies



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