NEC to release 8X +R Writer in November

[RAAGAAman]

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7609

The Speed Race is on Baby.

RG

[Metaluna]

Yeah now we just need to see if anybody's PC can actually keep up with a >10MB/sec data rate!

[RabidDog]

well the ide interface goes up to 133mbs/sec so 10mbs shouldnt be too much of a problem should it? serial ata runs at 150mbs?

The faster the better I say

[Metaluna]

well the ide interface goes up to 133mbs/sec so 10mbs shouldnt be too much of a problem should it? serial ata runs at 150mbs?

The faster the better I say

That's the theoretical maximum for the electrical interface. Real hard drives run much slower due to mechanical bottlenecks (the platters can only spin so fast, and the bits can only be packed so densely). I have yet to see more than maybe 13 MB/s or so when copying large files from one hard drive to another on my system (I have recent generation 7200 RPM drives -- an IBM 180GXP and a Barracuda V). Some of that is probably file system (NTFS) overhead...i.e. read from one NTFS drive and write to another. On a burner you would only be reading from NTFS, and streaming directly to the raw media so it might be able to go faster.

[thayne]

There is always SerialATA, SCSI and IDE RAID.....

I'm pretty sure my 180GPX will keep up fine.... It's fast!

The burner probably has a larger buffer too. I also noticed my burner will drop write speed on the fly while it's burning if it has too, usually when I copy files accross the network while burning.