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I have a Samsung SD-612 DVD-ROM drive, and I've noticed that it's been heating up my CDs a fair bit, even when ripping music tracks from CDs at (apparently) 1.0x. Now, the drive is 12x DVD and 40x CD. Are these drives supposed to warm CDs up a fair bit, even at low speeds?
The reason why the cds might be hot is probably because of the high spindle speed of the drive. Optical drives that do not use multiple beams(more beams to read more data at lower spindle speeds) to achieve high speed achieve it through increasing the spindle speed of the drive(the faster the data moves under the laser, the faster the data could be pulled from the cd). So the heating of cds is natural. My Pioneer DVD-115 is 16x/40x and does result in hot cds. Even my old comp with a 6x/32x and another with just a regular 40x CD-ROM made cd quite warm.
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