Rimhill Alternatives
Rimhill is described as *'sets the maximum cd-rom speed to a specified level in your drive.
This will prevent the annoying sound if a cd-rom is in your drive and also speed up access time if the drive is rarely used since the drive must only spin up to 8x instead of 48x.
The program creates an i'* and is an app. There are three alternatives to Rimhill for Windows and Mac. The best alternative is Nero DiscSpeed, which is free. Other great apps like Rimhill are DiscRotate and CDSlow.
Nero DiscSpeed, previously Nero DriveSpeed, is a disc speed measurement and performance diagnostics tool. It reads the speed of a CD-ROM drive.
Features
DiscRotate is a MenuItem that will control the speed of your optical drives. It is written in Cocoa for Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
This app doesn't have any features at the moment.
CDSlow is a program to control the speed of CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives. More precisely, to limit the maximum speed of the drive for reducing the noise, when it is not required to read the data very fast (for example, when listening a MP3 music).
This app doesn't have any features at the moment.