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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