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The most prominent hardware associated with this name is the LG GCE-8160B Go to product viewer dialog for this item.

These drives utilized the IDE/ATAPI (Integrated Drive Electronics) interface, which was the standard before SATA became universal. Buffer Underrun Protection: By the time 16x drives like the

were released, manufacturers began implementing technologies to prevent "buffer underrun" errors (which ruined discs if the computer couldn't feed data fast enough), making high-speed burning much more reliable. Drives like the

It could rewrite CD-RW media at 10 times the base speed.

were commonly sold with burning suites such as Nero Burning ROM 5.5 , which was the industry standard for managing data backups and creating audio CDs. Full text of "C't 2002 03 OCR" - Internet Archive

It could read standard data CDs at 40 times the base speed (approx. 6.0 MB/s). Context in Computing History