When do 16x burners come out?

[Passions]

Hmmm...late this yr perhaps?

 

[jh314]

well Yamaha has a 16X burner out... and certain people said that 16X media has come out already.. i don't know..not sure.. but check out the link

Yamaha 16X burner

 

[pac1085]

I saw some 16x media in my local newspaper the other day, so Im assuming they will be out soon.

 

[nuttervm]

i heard rumors on this board that plextor was coming out with a 20x near year's end. i'd wait for that.

 

[ElFenix]

i bought a 4x in january... now it feels slow... really slow... 16x burns in 5 minutes. holy nuts. 800 meg in 5 minutes. i wonder if i'd still be able to burn cd's over my 100base network?

 

[subman]

Will my 5400rpm DMA33 hard drives slow down the burn process with the next generation of 20x burners ? Will it be necessary to have DMA100 or 7200rpm drives wth these high speed burners ??

 

[jacobnero6918]

No that hard-drive is still alot faster than the burner can write at.

 

[flood]

12x is fast enough for me

 

[Erasmus-X]

subman:

No. The transfer rate on a typical hard drive is MUCH faster than even the fastest CD writer (currently the 16x Yamaha). Do the math:

150kps x 16 = 2400kps = roughly 2.3MBps, assuming that 1MB = 1024k

Modern hard drives (even the 5,400 rpm ones) hover around 20MBps sustained transfer rates, showing that a typical hard drive's performance is about 10x greater than the fastest burners.

I don't think we have anything to worry about right now.

 

[dawks]

How is the quality of CD-DA when burnt at 12x or higher? I was told there is a differnce between 2x and 4x which I still have yet to notice...

 

[Radboy]

Heard the Yamaha 16X is out now, for $300.