Burning multiple DVDs at the same time?

[ZetaEpyon]

Has anyone ever attempted this?

I'm looking to speed up the rate at which I am able to archive a large amount of video. My sole burner (Lite-On 16x SATA) recently failed, so I thought maybe I would pick up a pair of new SATA drives to replace it.

Am I going to run into throughput problems trying to do this? My anticipated typical burn scenario with two drives would be burning video from an IDE RAID-1 array (2 drives, PCI interface card) to the two SATA dvd drives. The content would not be the same for each disc. Additionally, I typically do not burn at max speed, but something like 8x.

Does this seem like it would work, or am I probably going to cause myself more trouble than it's worth?

 

[sutahz]

Sounds very doable to me. Optial drives are very slow compared to hdd's so bandwidth isn't an issue.
I was going to mention it then decided not to. As for burning different data you'll need to configure the program/OS to run multiple instances of whatever burning software you're using OR find 2 programs you like/do the job and use them to send sepearate jobs to the seperate burners.

 

[taltamir]

Back in the day when duplication towers were expensive, I suggested and built several computers with 4x DVD burners each, burning multiple copies using nero (hundreds of copies) 4 disks at a time. It worked without a hitch. And those were ECS mobo (not my choice, boss overruled me on that one), athlonXP, with 4x pioneer drives and a 300 watt PSU running windows XP and nero 6.

As long as you are burning the same data to each disk then it should work fairly well.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

That's the thing, though. I'm not burning the same data to each disc.

 

[imported_wired247]

That's why you have a buffer

 

[ZetaEpyon]

Hell, I might as well just order two anyway; they're cheap enough.

Worst case, it doesn't work, and I have a matching spare drive.