Re: 10X

> > And 12x drives are not that far behind them.
> > Kim
>      Did they find a way to increase the efficiency on the higher drives?  I
> was told that the 10x drives were only 5% faster than the 8x drives, when "by
> the numbers" they should be 25% faster.  Seems like they're nearing the
> ceiling on CDRom speed with that kind of overhead.

The overall increases are decreasing as the speed increases.  One of the
reasons is that the access time is not increasing at the same rate as the
rotational speed, so overall throughput with normal accesses is less than you
would expect with the faster rotational speed.  I do not see this changing
either.  It is pretty easy to speed up the rotation of the CD, but making the
heads move faster and find the correct spot on the cd is a lot harder.

Kim