These new discs allow users to write and re-write at speeds up to 32x and can therefore burn a 700MB file in less than three minutes after formatting.

The development of this media is courtesy of two further significant advances in Verbatim’s cutting edge recording technologies. The company has enhanced its Advanced SERL (Super Eutectic Recording Layer) with Advanced SERL +. This patented recording layer ensures both reliability and durability at this higher speed. This development overcomes the difficulties associated with being able to allow sufficient erasability at this high speed. Advanced SERL + prevents excess media noise during erase/re-write cycles, crucial to the successful long life of the media.

Secondly, these new 32x CD-RW disks incorporate the 2T Writing Strategy, a writing method first scene in Verbatim’s 16-24x media. The new writing method is required because at 24x and higher recording speeds, conventional recording technology cannot generate enough “cooling time” for creating stable amorphous marks. Verbatim's 2T Writing Strategy overcomes this issue to provide stability of the recorded mark as well as supporting quality high-speed erasure. This technology was recognised as a significant breakthrough at the time of its introduction and continues to facilitate the development of higher speed RW media.

Verbatim’s 32x CD-RW media can deliver more than 1,000 overwrites and an archival life of more than 30 years (estimated value by in-house testing). This is a highly cost-effective solution.