Compact Disc Speed
Pavan Outlaw
Original CD-ROM drives could read data at about 150 kB/s, 1 constant angular velocity (CAV),[1] the same speed of compact disc players without buffering. As faster drives were released, the write speeds and read speeds for optical discs were multiplied by manufacturers, far exceeding the drive speeds originally released onto the market. In order to market increasing drive speeds, manufacturers used the symbol n, whereby n is the multiple of the original speed. For example, writing to a CD at 8 will be twice as fast as writing onto a disc at 4.[2]
Modern compact discs support a writing speed of 52 and higher, with some modern DVDs supporting speeds of up to 24.[4] Writing a DVD at 1 (1385000 bytes per second)[5] is approximately 9 times faster than writing a CD at 1 (153600 bytes per second).[6] However, the actual speeds depend on the type of data being written to the disc.[6]
For Blu-ray discs, 1 speed is defined as 36 megabits per second (Mbit/s), which is equal to 4.5 megabytes per second (MB/s).[7] However, as the minimum required data transfer rate for Blu-ray movie discs is 54 Mbit/s, the minimum speed for a Blu-ray drive intended for commercial movie playback should be 2. The fastest Blu-ray speed is 16. For CDs, the 1 writing speed is equivalent to the 1 reading speed, which in turn represents the speed at which a piece of media can be read in its entirety, 74 minutes. Those 74 minutes come from the maximum playtime that the Red Book (audio CD standard) specifies for a digital audio CD (CD-DA); although now, most recordable CDs can hold 80 minutes worth of data. The DVD and Blu-ray discs hold a higher capacity of data, so reading or writing those discs in the same 74-minute time-frame requires a higher data transfer rate. Drive speed can be limited intentionally to reduce noise from the drive or slow down ripping, such as the firmware component Riplock.
Video games for PlayStation 3 were stored on single-layer Blu-ray which has a higher transfer rate by default but the console's optical drive speed multiplier was set at 2 (9 MB/s). On Xbox 360, video games were stored on common dual-layer 8.5 GB DVDs but with the console's 12 drive speed multiplier (16.5 MB/s), Xbox 360 could achieve up to 85% faster data transfer rate than PlayStation 3.[8] Slower transfer rate on PlayStation 3 led many multi-platform developers for a mandatory installation of a portion of the disc's content on the console's hard disk drive (HDD) in order to offset problems such as longer loading times.[9][10][11][12] Xbox 360 could install games entirely on HDD and potentially improve loading times but this was never mandatory.[13] Optical discs were still required to boot games. Seventh generation video games rarely filled the space of an entire single-layer Blu-ray disc (25 GB) or required two or more DVDs on Xbox 360.
From the eighth generation onward, full 1080p high-definition graphics, higher quality textures, further required a higher stream of data and as such Blu-ray optical drives' reading speed at 6 (27 MB/s)[14] soon proved to be insufficient.[15] For this reason, consoles like PlayStation 4 force-install video games entirely on HDD, which allows a higher stream of data. Like it was for Xbox 360, optical discs are still required to boot games.[15]
Almost all modern CD/DVD-burning software supports a selection of speeds at which the writable disc can be written. However, the option a user chooses only defines the theoretical maximum of disc burning process. There are other factors that influence the time taken for a disc to be written to:
A higher writing speed results in a faster disc burn, but the optical quality may be lower (i.e. the disc is less reflective). If the reflectivity is too low for the disc to be read accurately, some parts may be skipped or it may result in unwanted audio artifacts such as squeaking and clicking sounds. For optimal results, it is suggested that a disc be burnt at its rated speed.[16][17]
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Is this a commercial choice (i.e. manufacturers don't care about optical discs anymore and focus more on flash memories and SSD drives) or a technical limitation (i.e. optical drives cannot support higher writing and reading speeds)?
It's mostly a technical limitation. Put simply, if you spin the disk too fast it starts to become unstable and wobble around or even start to come apart under the sheer stress. At best this means read/write errors - and at worse means the possibility of it coming loose and causing damage.
KenWood has played with CD-ROMs that use multiple lasers to read several places on the disc at once and then re-compose them into a single stream in firmware. They call this technology TrueX. You're able to read data faster at the same spin rate, but you need to use a more powerful laser (since it's being split), which requires more power and results in more heat.
About a decade ago there were CD drives that used multiple laser beams to read 7 tracks at once for higher performance without having to spin the disk extremely fast. However they were expensive and apparently had reliability problems as well.
Now, even CD-DVDs are approaching a similar state & have been replaced by Flash drives & Memory Cards. And in years to come, mechanical Hard Disks will follow the suite & will be completely replaced by SSDs.
The root lies in storage technologies involving mechanical movement/rotation are slow, error prone, require more power, make more noise, generate more heat & will be replaced by their non-mechanical counterparts & technology by next decade.
I personally doubt there will be a lot of work done in making the spin rate or RPMs faster on CDs or DVDs because the main reason to make them faster would be to be able to read or write the data to the disc then store it somewhere or perhaps send it to someone. However with the internet and network speeds getting faster, along with other technologies that allow us to share files to people of our choice, there is little need to make the discs spin faster as other technologies are already much faster than CD's or DVDs in terms of read and write speed.
I do think that having a CD or DVD available has its merits, like when you need an OS CD to fix an installation of an operating system, but for sending data there are faster and cheaper ways of doing that these days.
I'm not enough of a technical expert to say this with extreme conviction, but I'm convinced that it's purely an economic issue. Yes, there are technical issues (several previous answers mention some really nasty ones) but technical issues have a way of disappearing when somebody has an economic incentive to make them go away.
And there's simply no economic incentive to develop faster optical drives. Optical media is no longer a primary means of getting data into computers. I can't remember the last time I used a CD or DVD to install software. It's easier to download it. On the rare occasions I need removable media (transferring network drivers to a system with a fresh OS install; using bootable media to install an OS) thumb drives usually make more sense.
What is the speed that a disc can read data vs a Hard Disc Drive? Is there a noticeable improvement in load times? It would be logical that a HDD would load faster because all it has to do is retrieve the data already downloaded.
A hard drive can fit a lot more data on a disk - this means more information can be read on a single revolution of the drive. [ Becauseof the density of data and the minute distance between the head and disk]
Its impossible to provide very meaningful speed figures, because there are so many variances, but [ as an order of magnitude ] a typical hard drive will move 100 megabytes a second, while a CD will move between 1 (realistically) and 8 megabytes a second, a DVD about 10-25 megabytes per second. Bluray disks are pretty fast at up to 4.5 - 9 Megabytes. Here is a link of various device speeds. Note that this is still a skewed picture as it does not take into account latencies and other factors, but it gives a rough-and-ready picture.
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