[sdiy] OT: Scratchy CDs

[Scott Gravenhorst]

One minor point: A CDR contains not metal to burn, but rather an organic dye.  

Tim Parkhurst <tparkhurst at siliconbandwidth.com> wrote:
>Snip>
>> 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
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