100xCD

CD-ROM is still one of the slowest data drives available for a PC user: even a 52x CD-ROM data access speed is nothing compared to hard drive speed. Not to mention the fact that most CDs, especially burned CDs, can't be read at high speeds and your CD-ROM drive slows down to access data on the compact disk. Speed is crucial especially when it comes to playing games that use CDs, watching movies and listening to MP3 files. 100xCD will make your CD-ROM a hundred times faster.
100xCD is a program that may be described as a hard disk cache tool for your CD-ROM. Unlike the RAM CD-ROM cache, this program can store up to 1000 GB of data in its cache files on your local hard drive. The program consists of two modules: the control panel module and the cache module. The latter starts on Windows startup and does all the work, while the former provides access to program settings.
This program works under Windows 2000 and XP only. The trial version lets you vary the CD-ROM cache from 500 MB to 1 GB, and the full version will have a range of 1 MB to 1000 GB. Download this tool now and increase your CD-ROM speed dramatically!

100xCD Cache speeds up your CD-ROM drive by caching frequently accessed data to your local hard drive. It work under Windows-XP/2000.
How it works?
Every time an application attempts to read data from a CD-ROM drive, 100xCD intercepts and analyzes this activity. If the application attempts to read the same data for a number of times (many multimedia application tend to do so), 100xCD then puts this frequently accessed data chunk to it?s cache on a local hard drive.
Next time the application will read this data chunk directly from the hard drive. Unlike system-provided RAM-based CD-ROM cache, 100xCD's cache can be very big (up to 1000GB) and hold data for unlimited amount of time. Modern hard drives and RAID-devices are much faster than any CD-ROM drive available on the market (in both access time and transfer rate), so the overall performance increases when using 100xCD.
Freeware.