Question:
What is Packet-Writing/FileCD and why should I use it?


Answer:
The original purpose of ?Packet-Writing", as initially designed by Sony with the assistance of NTI, was to reduce "buffer under runs"; a phenomenon that was plaguing the burgeoning CD-Recordable market. Two other useful applications for ?Packet Writing? are to allow your computer to save files individually to your CDRW drive as if it was a hard drive, and to reliably multitask (running more than one application while burning a CD). Later, as CD-Recordable technologies advanced, "Packet Writing" found its application as a "floppy replacement" (i.e. to use CDRW discs as if they were floppy diskettes), which is considered a "killer app" for CDRW.