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Originally posted by jagojago12
1 second burners are impossible. A full 700MB CD in 1 second means:
1. The interface has to support at least a transfer rate of 700MB/sec. Even with Serial ATA transfer rates are limited to 150MB/sec, and those are just theoretical numbers - not real world performance numbers.
2. The source (hard drive, or another CD drive) that is giving the CD-RW data to burn needs to have at least a 700MB/sec transfer rate. The fastest CD-ROM drive is the Kenwood True 72X CD-ROM and that has a maximum theoretical transfer rate of 10.8MB/sec so CD To CD copying would be limited to 10.8MB/sec at best. Most IDE hard drives are limited to a 40MB/sec sustained transfer rate, so that is out of the question too.
*edit* Also the angular velocity required to burn a 700MB CD in 1 second would probably be too great for the drive to sustain, meaning the CD would probably damage the drive or fly out or something. Probably an exaggeration but at that kind of speed we're definetly going to hit that type of limitation.
