18x discs?

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Is there such thing as an 18x rated dvd disc?

I'm using samsung 18x drives in my pc, and i've never seen the speed rise above 16x...

I'm using namebrand media, they're sony dvd-r 16x discs.....

So i was just wondering if there is such thing as 18x discs, or if these discs are just incompatable with the 18x mode in the firmware?
 
There are two different speeds to consider there. The fastest seen on any drive is "read" which is always much faster then the burn speeds on both cd and dvd blanks especially the second of the two. The slower speeds seen are the actual max burn speeds. You have to remember that the faster drives have to be available before the media comes out. What would you do with 18x blank media and only seeing all 16x speed drives?
 
Jack Bauer said:
I would use the 18x blank media with the 16x drives until the 18x drives come out. Does that answer your question?
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So I might use 80min. blanks for 60min. of audio or 8.4gb dvd-rs for 4.2gb worth of data. For audion they were 60 then 74 until the 80s came out. It also depends if it works on older drives. Most do.
 
PC eye said:
So I might use 80min. blanks for 60min. of audio or 8.4gb dvd-rs for 4.2gb worth of data. For audion they were 60 then 74 until the 80s came out. It also depends if it works on older drives. Most do.
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What I was saying is that going from 16x to 18x isn't really that big of a difference but I can see what your saying for filling up all of the dvds capacity .
 
PC eye said:
There are two different speeds to consider there. The fastest seen on any drive is "read" which is always much faster then the burn speeds on both cd and dvd blanks especially the second of the two. The slower speeds seen are the actual max burn speeds. You have to remember that the faster drives have to be available before the media comes out. What would you do with 18x blank media and only seeing all 16x speed drives?
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it's a samsung SH-S183L, it WRITES at 18x.

Liteon makes a 20x write drive.

I didn't ask for a logical breakdown of supply and demand, i simply asked whether or not there are actual 18x discs, or if the drive writes the higher speeds on 16x media.
 
The only thing I can personally think of is that when the faster discs come out (24x or 32x, whatever...), then these drives would at least be capable of a little faster than 16x. That's the only thing I can personally think of at this point...
 
drives will never get that much faster, because the cd and dvd consortium ruled 10,350 the fastest allowable rotational speed for the integrity of the discs.
 
Heh, somehow I doubt that. Drives will always be getting faster... they may just have to start making disks out of stronger plastic, or maybe create something with two reading/writing lenses.
 
Or it simply end up being the demise of the optical media altogether? Certain brands came out with 56x cd rom drives a few years back. Where are those now? While some are still made the problems with the media becoming somewhat brittle past certain speeds has kept that to a few makes only. Condensing data can only go so far as well due to that limitation. We're somewhat stuck with what is available now until a new media comes out.
 
With three different lazers the disk itself wouldn't spinning any faster there. When trying an Artec 56x cd drive it quit shortly after installing it! That was some back when wanting to add a second cd drive to keep for games that run with the cd in the drive. That first 52x24x52 Sony burner still sits around as spare. For a look at the Kenwood you mentioned PCStats has a review on it seen at http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=339&page=1
 
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