Reference number: CH000218
What does the x stand for on 32x?
Question:What does the x stand for on 32x?
Answer:The x on 32x means that, theoretically, this drive is 32 times faster than
the original CD-ROM drive. See our transfer rates for exact speeds.
Below
is the standard transfer rates and
access times of the majority of CD-ROM drives. The below figures are averages, you can
expect to find, on each speed of CD-ROM drives, that these averages may be slower or faster than
your CD-ROM drive and to where the CD-ROM is accessing the data from the CD-ROM.
| DRIVE SPEED |
TRANSFER RATE (BPS) |
ACCESS TIME (ms) |
| Single-speed (1x) |
153,600 |
400 |
| Double-speed (2x) |
307,200 |
300 |
| Triple-speed (3x) |
460,800 |
200 |
| Quad-speed (4x) |
614,400 |
150 |
| Six-speed (6x) |
921,600 |
150 |
| Eight-speed (8x) |
1,228,800 |
100 |
| Ten-speed (10x) |
1,536,000 |
100 |
| Twelve-speed (12x) |
1,843,200 |
100 |
| Sixteen-speed (16x) |
2,457,600 |
90 |
| Eighteen-speed (18x) |
2,764,800 |
90 |
| Twenty-four-speed (24x) |
3,686,400 |
90 |
| Thirty-two-speed (32x) |
4,915,200 |
85 |
| One-hundred-speed (100x) |
15,360,000 |
80 |
| CAV drives (12x - 24x) |
1,843,200 - 3,686,400 |
150-90 |
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