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Drive Specifications A-3
Appendix A: Technical
Information
NOTE: Refer to your computer and mother board manuals or contact your
computer vendor if you have any questions about your computer’s configuration
or capabilities.
Drive Specifications
ISO 9660 Disc Data Capacity (74 Minute CD)
*1 MB is defined as 10
6
bytes
UDF 1.5 Disc Data Capacity (74 Minute CD)
530 MB for CD-RW
618 MB for CD-R
Performance
Buffer size: 991 KB to 975 KB (depending on writing mode)
Average access time (1/3 stroke): < 150 ms
Data transfer rate (recording):
150 KB/s sustained (1x speed)
300 KB/s sustained (2x speed)
600 KB/s sustained (4x speed on CD-R media)
Data transfer rate (reading):
150 KB/s (1x speed, CLV mode)
300 KB/s (2x speed, CLV mode)
Number
of
sessions
Size required for header
information
Size available for data/
per session
1 approximately 23 MB* 627 MB one session
5 approximately 79 MB
(approx. 23 for the first,
14 MB each of the rest)
114 MB each session
10 approximately 149 MB
(approx. 23 for the first,
14 MB each of the rest)
50 MB each session
30 approximately 430 MB
(approx. 23 for the first,
14 MB each of the rest)
7.4 MB each session