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Re: CD-ROM Drive

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Roberto Pavan (rpavan@home.com)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:01:05 -0700

Melissa Tan 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.

FWIW, my 16x SCSI CDRW definately reads faster than my 24x ATAPI CDROM. No
contest. Takes a tad longer to get ready after inserting a CD, though. 

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Roberto Pavan rpavan@home.com

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