Notes: Testing CD-R Overburning Capacity – Which Drives to Use?

Notes: Testing CD-R Overburning Capacity – Which Drives to Use?

Recently, a reader had donated some rare media to me for the purposes of examination and testing. Because of this, I had a reason to revisit some older topics, such as overburning which I covered once before, but in a slightly more serious way. What is Overburning? Overburning is simply the process of writing more data to a disc than it was officially rated for. Modern “80-minute” CD-Rs usually have an official capacity of 79 minutes 59 seconds …