Reply 20 of 21, by swaaye
wrote:Do you mean CAV? I'm assuming you meant it's less annoying because the disc speed does not change based on position of the optics. CLV is a constant speed of bits moving over the pickup, which requires the RPM to change depending on the effective diameter of that area of the disc. (Unless I got it backwards again.) I can't think of a reason why CLV would be quieter, except when you're at the end of the disc. 😀
Yeah it's probably just the lower read speed in general. Once drives get to 16X or faster, the noise shoots up. CAV also brought in the era of "high speed" drives that are actually quite slow reading most of the surface. And the occasional problems with spin up time, and sometimes an overly short spindown idle time that causes old game pause issues. Oh and the occasional exploding disc caused by excessive RPM. 😀
And unfortunately Nero DriveSpeed doesn't work with all drives.