What is 16X, 24X, 32X,in terms of CD/DVD burning?
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The rate at which CD-ROM drives can transfer data from the disc is gauged by a speed factor relative to music CDs: 1x or 1-speed which gives a data transfer rate of 150 kilobytes per second in the most common data format. By increasing the speed at which the disc is spun, data can be transferred at greater rates. For example, a CD-ROM drive that can read at 8x speed spins the disc at up to 4000 rpm (compared to the 500 rpm maximum for 1x speed), giving a transfer rate of 1.2 megabytes per second. Above 12x speed, vibration and heat can become a problem. CD-ROM drives above this speed tackle the problem in several ways. Constant angular velocity (CAV) drives spin the disc at a constant rate, leading to faster data transfer when reading from the outer parts of the disc, but slower towards the centre. 20x was thought to be the maximum speed due to mechanical constraints until Samsung Electronics introduced the SCR-3230, a 32x CD-ROM drive which uses a ball bearing system to balance the spinning disc in the drive to reduce vibration and noise. As of 2004, the fastest transfer rate commonly available is about 52x or 7.62 megabytes per second, though this is only when reading information from the outer parts of a disc. Future speed increases based simply upon spinning the disc faster are particularly limited by the strength of polycarbonate plastic used in CD manufacturing, though improvements can still be obtained by the use of multiple laser pickups as demonstrated by the Kenwood TrueX 72x which uses seven laser beams and a rotation speed of approximately 10x.\n\nCD-Recordable drives are often sold with three different speed ratings, one speed for write-once operations, one for re-write operations, and one for read-only operations. The speeds are typically listed in that order; ie a 12x/10x/32x CD drive can, CPU and media permitting, write to CD-R disks at 12x speed (1.76 megabytes/s), write to CD-RW discs at 10x speed (1.46 megabytes/s), and read from CD discs at 32x speed (4.69 megabytes/s).\n\nThe 1x speed rating for CDs (150 kilobytes/s) is not to be confused with the 1x speed rating for DVDs (1.32 megabytes/s).\n\nIdeally for writing a cd dont go for writing speeds more than 16X and for DVD dont go for writing speeds more than 12X
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I'll agree with the previous answers insofar as 128kps is the MINIMUM for 16 bit 44.1Khz CD's.\nHowever, as many modern CD's (not to mention remasters) are 20 or 24 bit, the higher the bitrate the better - although obviously file size is a consideration.\n\nIt's really a personal preference - a trade-off between file size and quality - personally, I go for a minimum of 192Kps nowadays.
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There are many good answers already given above, and a few bad ones. \n\nNot one person has mentioned important factors such as how much RAM you have, how fast your CPU is, or even more importantly, WHAT you are burning in the first place.!!\n\nI you are burning a wide variety of files scattered all over \nyour computer, say from another CD, a USB memory device, \nmany different folders from dfferent harddrives, all at once,\nthen there is a hiccup every time the computer has to load in the data from a different location... Burn slow !\n\nIf you are gathering MP3 songs which are scattered all over your harddrive in many sub-nested folders, burn slower.\n\nIf you a copying another CD of your favourite songs or MP3's, you have to consider - how fast is the CD you are reading from, how fast is the data tranfere From one CD to the other, and not just in terms of the " rated" speed, but is one a Master, and the other Slave on the SAME CABLE? If so, the speed is cut in half, since there is only one cable, the cable can only read OR write at any moment, and the data\ncannot read, and be sent to the other CD immediately, which it " COULD " do if the 2 CD's were on DIFFERENT cables...\n\nBe aware that the "rated" speed of any CD is the fastest speed that the CD can burn --- *** IN ONLY ONE SPOT ON THE\nCD *** --- That means that in the tiny centre area of the CD, where the radius of the circle is the smallest, the CD can burn the dots at the fastest speed. As you go out farther on the CD, the actual speed of the track increases greatly, and on the outmost last 1.4 inch, I do not know of a single CD burner that can burn at the " ADVERTISED " speed. ( So in "fact " no CD burner at all burns at the\nhighest speed listed  ). A good CD burner will burn at 80 times. If you take a laser speed reader and look at any CD, you will see the speed decrease as the burner head moves away from the center...\n \n SO, if you have a 4 Giga Hertz computer, with 2 GigaBytes of ram, and an 80 X Speed Burner, and use Serial ATA 10,000\nRPM harddrives, and have each CD machine on a separate ATA 80 pin cable as a MASTER, then you can burn quite fast, with\nfew errors appearing immediately...\n\n I agree with the answer that a slower burn is a more reliable, better burn, with less problems. If you have\na collection of files from differnt harddrives and CD's,\n-- put them in a SINGLE FOLDER, and burn the contents of the \nnew folder, since everything there will be in the same\norder, in the same location, with no hiccups since  the computer does not have to change devices to read the data. \n\n  If you can, try to arrange your cables to the CD's so that\nthe Burner is NOT on the same cable as the harddrive or the\nother CD you might be gathering data from.\n\n Two people with exactly the same harddrive, CD reader, and CD burner, can have totally different success in burning CD's at any given speed. If the first person has the harddrive on a ATA cable, with the CDs as Masters on\n2 differnt cables, while the second person has the\nharddrive and the CD burner on the same cable, as Master and Slave,\nthe second person will not be able to burn as fast without having problems....\n\nI generally burn at 1/2 the speed of the rated machine listing. If the burner is rated at 48, I aim for 24, and if\nI know WHERE THE DATA IS COMMING FROM, ie., from a slower device, the network, or scattered folders, I burn even slower. It does make a differnce. If I am forced to gather\nthe data I am burning from the SAME CABLE.... ( a master or slave on the same cable as the burner ) I burn even slower\nagain... After a while you get a good " feel " for where you can put the speed settings, on each machine...\n I have hundreds of BAD CD burns. Live and learn. There are hundreds of exceptions to each rule, and different software\nprograms for burning, and different manufacters of CD's, readers, burners,
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Yes, this denotes the speed that the disk will read/write at.  The number (n)x is how many times faster than normal playback speed.  The higher the number, the faster disks will burn for you.  When possible, go with the higher number.  \n\nI would recommend getting a DVD burner because it will allow you to burn both CDs and DVDs.  Also, when purchasing a DVD burner, look for one that supports DVD+/-r (two different DVD media formats) and Dual Layer (another DVD format that allows you to fit double the amount of data on 1 disk)
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Hi, \n\nfirst of all, don't confuse DVD-ROM speed with CD-ROM speed, the notation is different.\n\nCDrom  speeds 1X, 2X, 4X etc is the number of times the drive is than the single-speed (1x) CD-ROM player.\n\n1X CDRom drive gives a data transfer rate of 150 kilobytes per second. (1x speed rating for DVDs 1.32 megabytes/s.)
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Yeah, you need a faster burner, I burn mine at 16X.
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150 KB/s\n\n24X is 3600KB/s
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It means how many times faster than real time the recoder will burn the disc. A 700MB CD will hold 80 minutes of CD-standard audio. At 1-X speed it would take 80 minutes to burn the CD. At 2X it would take 40 minutes. At 40X it would take 2 minutes.\n\nNote : these times are for the actual burning of data onto the disc. The actual time it takes to create the CD is greater, due to other functions performed by the burner and the recording program.
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If it's only 699.13, it should be fine.  It's under the limit, and most CD's will let you overburn by a couple of megs anyways.  To be honest though, the only cd-burning programs I know where you can split up a file are Nero and Roxio.
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4.0\n1600\n\ngood luck, mate.
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Main Advantage- Size! \nThe *typical* DVD can hold 4.7gigs of data, where a *typical* CD holds 700megs of data. With the newer DVD Writers (and re-Writers) They have introduced a "Dual Layer" DVD that holds 8.5gigs of data, or 12 CDs worth of data, but they require a Dual Layer compatible reader to work with them, where a standard (older) DVD drive would mainly take CDs or DVDs, but not Dual Layer DVDs.\nBoth DVDs and CDs are available in right once or re-writable, but with older DVD writers, they used one format to read and write where two were available- so there are DVD-R or -RW and DVD+R or +RW. Newer burners will deal with both, as will newer readers. \nCost used to be an issue, but recently, its been cheaper to buy DVDs on sale (right once) than but CDs (right once).
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NEC 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL.\n\n$36.99\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152058\n\nNEC 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Silver \n\n$34.99 \n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152060
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RiDisc because their re-writable dvd discs, i use dem and their really gd and realible ..plus if u wanna delete or change ure film etc...then u can add take away wid these discs...the discs tht i use are \ndvd-rw\n2 x 120min/ 4.7 GB\nData and video
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the only real difference is if the DVD player you want to play the disks back on support that format or not. you can use any on your PC but might not be able to play back on your DVD player. if you want to be able to re use the disks you will need +RW or -RW. if you just want to record something for keeping then +R or -R which are cheaper are fine. the 4x 8x  etc refer to the speed at which you can record onto them you can use any speed you want but your drive will only work up to its max speed, +/- R are faster than +/- RW.
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yes you need combo/dvd writer for it.\nyou know 1 dvd=4.7 gb ie U can store data which will need some 6 normal cd.\nboth can be easily burn by nero 6 or 7
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4.7 on a normal dvd or 8.5 ona duble layer.... or the little disk...1.5 Gb
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No formatting is necessary unless you want to "burn" using the drag and drop functionality in Windows Explorer.  As for +R and -R, that depends on your drive make and model.  Right-click your my computer icon on your desktop and select properties.  Now select the Hardware tab and then the Device Manager button.  On this new screen, find DVD/CD-ROM drives and click the "+" symbol next to this entry.  This will show you what kind of drive you have.  You can use this info to determine what your drive capabilities are.  Good luck!