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Re: CD Burn Rate

Subject: Re: CD Burn Rate
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:01:41 -0500
 wrote:
> To The Experts:
> 
> I am getting ready to burn the master CD for Volume 2 of The Birds of 
> Northwest Ecuador. I have read conflicting advice pertaining to the speed I 
> should use to burn these master CDs. Some say to use a low speed (2X) as this 
> will do the best job. Others say to use a high speed (40X) as this will 
> decrease the chance of errors. I asked the duplicator who will be reproducing 
> the CDs from the master and he said the burn speed was a gray area. Any ideas?

You will actually increase the errors as you speed up. On average.

But, 2X is not supported well anymore, and may have greater errors than 
4X. So that's what I normally use. I don't have problems with 4X or 6X, 
even though my writer will go faster.

The master will be read and the data rewritten, so as long as it reads 
error free, it won't matter. Speed is only one factor in that. For a 
master I'd have my software verify after the write, that's a extra check 
to see if it got it right. Check if your software has this ability.

Walt




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