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    quad-speed CD-ROM drive

    Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:53 pm
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    A CD-ROM drive designed to run four times as fast as original models. Often denoted as 4X CD players, they provide data transfer rates of 600K per second and data access times as low as 125 milliseconds (ms).

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