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i know that pretty much all of you around here thrive on having a fast computer and it can drive you crazy when using a slow computer 
well i found a very nice solution when using cds for games, applications, or whatever.
i just got a new toy yesterday, virtual cd v4. this program is one that will take your cds and put them on your hard drive so you no longer need to go digging for a cd whenever you need it. so far, i have been extremely impressed with the speeds that this offers. i did a quick benchmark of the speeds that it put out from my raid0 array and here's the results:
if you didn't notice from the image, it says that it reads at a speed of 134x in cd-rom speeds... the great thing about this program is that i can even make images of cds that are copy protected. with this program, you can still create and use those images on your hard drive. it takes a couple hours to do for those cds that don't allow copying, but it does work fantastically. games load much quicker, it's quieter... all around good stuff i figured that since i have a good 130 GB free, i might as well fill it up with something. i would highly recommend this to anybody who is looking to use a virtual cd program. with this program you can create multiple virtual cd drives so if you have a game that takes multiple cds, you don't have to switch in the middle of your game. while it is making the cd images, i found that you can still do other things on your computer. it only takes up about 5% of my p4 2.4b's usage. i am making an image as we speak and it says it will take about 3 minutes on my 48x cd-rom to make an image (non-copy protected cd). apparently, this program will even copy dvds to your hard drive as well. i have no way of testing this since i don't have a dvd rom (that is what my ps2 is for)
i just figured i would share in my joy of finding a very decent virtual cd program.
well i found a very nice solution when using cds for games, applications, or whatever.i just got a new toy yesterday, virtual cd v4. this program is one that will take your cds and put them on your hard drive so you no longer need to go digging for a cd whenever you need it. so far, i have been extremely impressed with the speeds that this offers. i did a quick benchmark of the speeds that it put out from my raid0 array and here's the results:
if you didn't notice from the image, it says that it reads at a speed of 134x in cd-rom speeds...
the great thing about this program is that i can even make images of cds that are copy protected. with this program, you can still create and use those images on your hard drive. it takes a couple hours to do for those cds that don't allow copying, but it does work fantastically. games load much quicker, it's quieter... all around good stuff i figured that since i have a good 130 GB free, i might as well fill it up with something. i would highly recommend this to anybody who is looking to use a virtual cd program. with this program you can create multiple virtual cd drives so if you have a game that takes multiple cds, you don't have to switch in the middle of your game. while it is making the cd images, i found that you can still do other things on your computer. it only takes up about 5% of my p4 2.4b's usage. i am making an image as we speak and it says it will take about 3 minutes on my 48x cd-rom to make an image (non-copy protected cd). apparently, this program will even copy dvds to your hard drive as well. i have no way of testing this since i don't have a dvd rom (that is what my ps2 is for) i just figured i would share in my joy of finding a very decent virtual cd program.
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