24x speed DVD burners in action

[BijouMan]

In the later years of the evolution of disc drives, most half-height DVD burners that were shipping in desktop computers could burn DVD-R5 and DVD+R5 discs at up to 16x speed in CAV mode (meaning 16x at the outer edge of the disc.) While there was never a drive that could read DVDs faster than 16x, the drive manufacturers continued introducing drives with faster burn speeds than 16x, eventually reaching 24x speed at the end of the 2000s. The 24x burn speed was only available if the disc's Manufacturer ID was one of the qualifying ones in the drive's firmware, presumably those that were successfully tested at the 24x speed. Otherwise, only the burn speed that the disc was labeled for was available. Here are two 24x speed DVD burners burning supported DVD-R5 discs at 24x. I had always wondered what the spindle speed would sound like as you could only find out by burning one of these discs, since the maximum read speed was still 16x. There have also been Blu-ray burners capable of burning certain BD-R 25 discs at 16x speed, but there is not a video of one of those yet.

Here is a Hitachi-LG Data Storage drive (this particular one being ASUS-branded) burning a Verbatim 16x DVD-R5 disc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e6n8pB_v3I

And here is a Lite-On drive burning a Taiyo Yuden DVD-R5 disc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1GebMwcZGI

DISCLAIMER: These videos do not belong to me. All credit goes to Gough Lui.

[AfricanRabbit]

I had one of those LG/ASUS 24x drives back in the day, it was crazy loud when it spun up at full tilt, almost like a mini jet engine. The burns worked fine with decent Verbatim discs, but cheap media at 24x was a coaster factory, so I usually stuck to 16x for reliability.