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Overburning.
Hi everybody!
I have seen CDs around that state capacities of 90 or 100 minutes. I hear that is extra capacity is only achievable via overburning.
Firstly I should ask if this true. If so, are some CD-writers more likely to be able to burn these larger disks? Do any CD-writers natively support these larger capacity disks?
Thanks for reading.
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yes its possible, but it does put your drive at risk as some cant handle it as well as others.
Heres a nice list of burners and reviews:
http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware..._writers.shtml
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Some drives explicitly support overburning, I have an Asus CRW 5224A and it burns 99 minutes CDs without any problems... But, the 99 minutes CD-Rs are so expensive that if you're wanting to burn lots of stuff over CD size, you'd probably be better off buying a DVD writer, since they're pretty cheap nowadays...
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They are not that expensive anymore, I found these which are not too bad price wise. I seem to have found a couple of CR-RWs that support the larger media. If anyone knows of CD-RWs that definitely support 99 min media I would be grateful if you would let me know.
I agree that the price of DVD writers is amazingly low now.
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Nothing supports it natvely - I find this is one of the things that really pull the cheap LiteOn, BenQ drives from the Plextor and Asus drives :) Overburning is risky although alot of writers can do it fine (my Phillips had no problems doing it).