HP CD52 External CD-Writer Series - Manual (Page 22)

Nero Express Getting Started • 22
Run at startup – You can select to run Nero Drive Speed when you turn on your
computer.
Start minimized – You can have Nero Drive Speed start when you turn on your
computer but minimized in the background so it will not disturb your work.
Restore speed settings at startup – You can return to default speed settings
once you restart your computer.
The ability for limiting the reading speed of a CD-ROM drive is a must have feature
for high speed drives. Although a high speed drive allows you to transfer data in
less time, there are some disadvantages of using such a drive
A drive faster than 24x can be very noisy which is not surprising as the spindle
speed can be as high as 12000 RPM which is much faster than for example a hard
disk. If the drive only needs to access the CD for a short period of time, for
example software installation, then this is not such a big problem. But it can get
irritating when you're using the drive to play MP3 files. In many cases the noise
from the drive is louder than the sound from the audio file. The data rate of a MP3
file is usually about 16 KB/sec (@128 kbps) which equals to approximately 0.1X!
So a reading speed of 4X is more then adequate for playing MP3's.
You can also use Nero DriveSpeed to increase the DAE speed with some drives.
Asus drives for example set the default DAE speed to 8X while these drives are
actually capable of DAE at up to 20X or even higher!
Speed set after a disc is inserted (Auto Insert Notification must be enabled)
This has been implemented because many drives lose their speed setting when
a new disc is inserted.
Bug fix: speed settings not saved on some configurations
Other small bug fixes/improvements