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Edward Swatschek (edjs@bitslayer.net)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:00:26 -0700
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Melissa Tan <ishstar@scene.org> wrote:
> I doubt that the box would actually say what the read/write speed of the
> drive really is... I think the 50X applies more RPM. It's 50 times faster,
> but they don't really put what 1X speed is on the box either. Unless it's
> SCSI, I wouldn't get a 50X CDROM drive.
The 50x refers to 50x the original CDROM transfer rate of 150 kbytes/s (so
7.5 Mbytes/s in this case).
My new 40x is louder than my nearly-silent (but old and flaky, alas) 6x
drive, but I don't find it overly intrusive. But then, I mostly use it for
installing software or playing music (where it's running silently at 1x
anyways).
-- Edward Swatschek - edjs@bitslayer.net
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