Stephen Worthington wrote:

>** Reply to message from Mike O'Connor  on Thu, 09
>Sep 2004 19:57:17 +1000
>
>>Hi Don,
>>
>>I know this is very late ... I almost filled several disks and had to 
>>engage in some serious house-keeping on all systems -- but anyway, from 
>>my experience:
>>
>>CD-RW disks cannot be written at the same [maximum] speed as the CD-R 
>>variety, by burner design -- though as you only burn at low speeds, 
>>that's not applicable here.
>>    
>>
>
>Not quite right.  It is a combination of media and the burn capabilites
>of your CD-RW drive that limits CD-RW speeds.
>
Agreed, but I have not yet seen any CD-R/RW drive that could write 
rewriteables at anywhere near the write-once-only speed!
I knew from later postings that Don only used 1x or 2x.

>  I have a Benq 52x CD-RW
>drive which can write CD-RWs at 24x, but only on special 24x media,
>which is hard to find.  CD-RW media is available easily and cheaply at
>up to the 4x speed.  The next speed up seems to be 12x and is a
>different type of media and needs a drive that has the capability to
>write it.  I think this is called "Fast CD-RW".  And then the next
>speed jump seems to be 24x, requiring "Ultra CD-RW" media and drive. 
>The Fast and Ultra media are not nearly as cheap or readily available
>as the 4x CR-RWs.
>
>Of course, if you really want fast RW capability, you need to get a DVD
>writer.  There is plenty of 4x DVD RW media available at not too
>expensive prices, and 4x DVD speed is very fast (4.37 Gbytes in 15
>minutes = 298 Mbytes per minute).
>  
>
nice -- but still too pricey for me, and I'm quite happy to use CD as 
I'm not into MP3s etc., and most usage is backup of relatively small 
partitions - I can usually fit 1GB uncompressed onto a 650MB CD with 
FastBack/2, or a zipped edition of the drive.

>>CD-R disks by many manufacturers come in a variety of capacities greater 
>>than the stock 650MB [700/800 etc].
>>I personally haven't encountered other than GO-Tech at 700MB CD-RW[here] 
>>- though YMMV.
>>    
>>
>
>There are many options for 700 Mbyte 4x CD-RW.  The brand most
>available here in New Zealand seems to be Melody at the moment.  The
>faster CD-RWs I have not seen in the 700 Mbyte size, but then I have
>not been looking as I have a DVD writer now.
>
>>Related point : If you are using RSJ -- I think you have that - you 
>>don't need to BLANK a *New* CD-RW, only when you are reusing a 
>>previously written one.
>>    
>>

Hi Stephen,

At DSE here in Australia, I found no problem in obtaining 24x Verbatim 
discs, and have a couple of x32 speed CD-RW, so I would have thought you 
could get those in NZ too! I have an ASUS 52x32x52 drive, and what a 
difference with RW/R media from my previous Acer [now Benq!], as that 
was "only" 8x4x32.  All the fast ones I have seen here are 650MB only.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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