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To: RDM who wrote (10955)	10/1/2000 1:56:49 PM
From: jamok99	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

A little OT - Speaking of cdrom burners, the 'burnproof' technology sounds like a winner to me, given my (and apparently, others) experience in making coasters. Does anyone know if the 'burnproof' technology is proprietary, and who holds the license on it? Could be a subject for investment research, if it is in fact proprietary. TIA.

To: RDM who wrote (10955)	10/1/2000 7:32:58 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RDM, It all depends on your network loading. Some will be able to do it and others not, looks like your network may have some fast parts but is strangulated by excess people/traffic. Try doing this as an after hours scheduled task. Check and see what other schedules that MIS has at night to make sure you pick a time when you are lone traffic(if possible) If it is a pain to copy network traffic to a local drive prior to copying that means it is slow and takes time. On the face of it a 100BT network can transfer a CD ful in 10 seconds or less, with no other traffic. Now if you have internet telephony on your network with prioritization....game over. The fact that it is a nuisance tells the tale....takes too long. You should ask the IT guy if you have a choke point at the server so you can never use the bandwidth of 100BT? As for using it over the network, it all depends on the average bandwidth you can get on the network. If you can sustain 300K/sec you may be able to sustain 2X copying. Remember that the burn proof tech is an end track...restart track...method and has a few meg overhead to close/open the volume. You cannot tolerate too many of those on a CDROM before your efficiency falls to zero. So burn proof is not a panacea but it is a helpful new tech. Bill