cd-rw

[vik_pa]

i have a few questions regarding cd-rw

1. What is the largest cd-rw you can get? can you get cd-rw 800mb?

2. when it says cd-rw 1-4x what does the 1-4x part mean. my cd drive is 4x/8x. does it have something to do with this???

3. is there a site that states which cd-rw will be compatible with my cd-drive. i bought some cd-rw and my cd drive cannot write to them???

[SKD_Tech]

800MB is the largest CD you can buy. This accounts to CD-R and CD-RW

1-4X or 4-8X Means how fast the CD can be burned and how fast your burner can burn CD's.

I would go to the manufactures website and check there for comopatability with CD-RW

[The Edge]

1:
AFAIK it's 700mb max for cdrw
Verbatim make 32x speed CDRW discs.

2:
1-4 means it can be written to at 1x or 2x or 4x
That's it.
The 4x/8x probably mean to can "write" to a cdr at 8x max and you can "re-write" to a cdrw at 4x max

3:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/


Edge

[The Edge]

SKD_Tech types faster

Edge

[shiny#3]

to answer your questions......

"1. What is the largest cd-rw you can get? can you get cd-rw 800mb? "

yes, I have not seen any larger so far they are saled as 700mb
"sure dye" but hispace cdrw often allow overburning!
this of course depends on your burner and chances are that
only few other drives can rad it completly


"2. when it says cd-rw 1-4x what does the 1-4x part mean. my cd drive is 4x/8x. does it have something to do with this??? "


that means that the dye on this media (mostly phtalo-cyan based)
is opimized for exactly a burningspeed of 1 to 4 writespeed.
you can not burn it with 8x burnspeed.

so you should buy a media that matches your burningspeed most.

your drive is capable of writing to cd-rw at 8x speed in the first use and then 4x burnspeed for erasing and rewriting.....

so see to it that the media you buy matches your burnspeed capabilities of your drive

[SKD_Tech]

my god we all posted at the same time. Yep the edge but you had a little more info and I was typing with a cigarette in my hand

[vik_pa]

thanks. just another query regarding cd-rw. the more you burn and erase, does the quality of the movie file (that i am burning)get worse?

[shiny#3]

you can almost burn a 1000 times to a cd-rw.
any erase is also a burning process... so 500 times.....

make sure that you do not scratch your cd-rw.....and do not expose it to intensive light.... then the quality of the data reproduction is ALMOST guaranteed

[WildmanJoe]

By doing a quick-erase on your CD-RW, it merely deletes the Table-Of-Content (TOC)... like your hdd. Even after erasing your CD-RW, the information is pretty much still there. The only sure way to remove the data is to do a full erase.

I doubt that doing a quick erase is considered a burning process... and the 1000 rewrites are just bs. You'd probably throw away your CD-RW before you could even write that many times. Either that or it gets lost and never to be seen again...

[WildmanJoe]

Sorry... to add to that... try using 99mins CD-Rs instead. With nero's overburn capability, these are probably the last types of CDs you would burn before switching to DVDs...

[BoF]

Originally posted by WildmanJoe
I doubt that doing a quick erase is considered a burning process...

erasing the TOC means a burn process to the physical TOC area. if this area is down, you can play frizbee with your rw.

[vik_pa]

Originally posted by SKD_Tech
800MB is the largest CD you can buy. This accounts to CD-R and CD-RW

do you have a link to a site where i can purchase 800mb cd-rw. will they work in modern dvd players?

[Enchanter]

Now I see why French humour is markedly different from other (usually raw) jokes. You are good, BoF.

[WildmanJoe]

Guess I didn't make myself clear on the burning to TOC part... What I'm suggesting is that it doesn't add to the 1000x (ie 500+500).

But like I said, no one can prove it... to write to a CD-RW (in the past) took like 20mins (4x). That makes 72 times in a day of continuous writing. 14 days to reach 1000 times. By that time, your CD-RW would have konked out first...

The CD burners are getting faster with each new model that is arriving in the market... I remember when I first got my 8x4x32x. It was like the fastest thing I ever seen.... now I don't even use my 4x CD-RWs.

[shiny#3]

ANY writing process to a cd-rw is a writing process... even if it is
just
deleting the content with quick erase it WILL affect the dye.....
since the dye must be perfect through out the whole cd to
store movies it does not matter if you just write to a part of it
while erasing. every write process will surley decrease the functionality of a cd-rw by a certain amount!!.......by the way
I have never met the limit......of 500 erase and rewrite on
a particular cd-rw.