CD data recovery?

[The Edge of the Ice]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:17:36 -0400, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> As far as I remember my 52x CD writer will only read pressed CDs at up
> to 40 or 48x (probably 40x) to avoid damaging them, while cd-r it will
> run at 52x.  Supposedly they are more durable than pressed discs.  The
> drive is also supposed to have a reinforced front bezel, just in case :)
> I don't want to know what the inside of the drive would look like if it
> ever had a need to using that reinforcement.

Unfortunately the original site appears to be down:
http://www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm

But there are others:
http://www.hifi-writer.com/he/misc/killercds.htm
http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm

Now we're all waiting for those 500GB solid-state memories...  ;)

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