Therefore, a drive spun at a constant 8,000 rpm with an advanced DSP chipset could operate with 30X max performance. Are you marketers listening?
Now (August 1997) some company is offering a 24X CDROM drive! Stay tuned for “Safety precautions and recommended body armor when using or troubleshooting a 100X CDROM drive” :-). Here are a couple of data points on ultimate CD speed limits: For the following, if one assumes the worst case, 1X is equivalent to 500 rpm. You can do the heavy math. 🙂 (From: Richard Griffin (rjgriffin@viewlogic.com).) I just thought I would chip in with my 2 cents worth…… There have been studies into just how fast you can spin your average CD without structural problems occurring. I believe Philips (UK) conducted the study. They found that spinning a disc up to the equivalent of 45X caused the disc to stretch enough due to the centripetal forces to make it impossible for the laser to track the track (if you catch my drift). Just for the sheer hell of it, they wound the test discs up to 56X at which point they scattered themselves in a very artistic ‘splinter’ formation all over the test lab. (From: Sc
