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Case with space for 10 DVD burners?

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LightningRider

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Hi

I have a friend that wants to have 10 DVD burners in his computer so that he can burn many movies simultaneously. Crazy I know.

Anyways, I'm not sure which case would be the best to contain all of these burners. Any suggestions for a situation like this?

Thanks

MOD EDIT: Moving to Cases & Cooling as that category is a better match. - Zap
 
Curious, how is he planning on hooking up the DVD burners? IDE? SATA? If SATA, is he using a mobo with that many ports (like an IN-9), or with PCI/PCI-E SATA cards? If I had a choice, I would go SATA and PCI-E, so there are no bottlenecks.
 
Yeah it'll be SATA and PCI-E/SATA.

He'll have to get a card. Also, do you think an E8400 could handle burning that many discs at a time while still doing other stuff or would a quad be better for this?
 
Originally posted by: LightningRider
Yeah it'll be SATA and PCI-E/SATA.

He'll have to get a card. Also, do you think an E8400 could handle burning that many discs at a time while still doing other stuff or would a quad be better for this?
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To burn that many movies at once? I'd say go with the quad core and a good chunk of RAM.
 
Does he realize the bandwidth limitations. I can see 3 or 4 drives running at the same time. Sure the CPU wouldn't be a problem it would be the FSB and the speeds of the chipset where the information would be bottlenecked and slow down the prosses. Even if the software where multi threaded to maximize CPU usage the rest of the motherboard and SATA/IDE cards can only handle one comand at a time. Think of it like giving orders to each drive. It won't be able to order all the drives to write the same line of code at the same time. It will have to tell each drive one at a time to write that line. Esentually the more you have running the slower things will be.

I think there will be allot of bottlencking in the system trying to run more then that. he may be better off running multiple systems with 3 or 4 drives a peice.

now there are systems made for mass pruducing disks liek that. Where its made to instruct all the drives at the same time to perfrom the same task. But a regular PC isn't desinged that way. For every drive burning there will have to be an instance of the burning software running to control that drive. So you can see how slow this prosses will be.

Please correct me if i'm wrong here.
 
Yup, unless he plans on burning different movies at the same time, get a duplicator tower. Comes with a special card that runs all burners at the same time as said above. That works fine at sending the same source to all drives simultaneously. Not planning on becoming a home-brew bootlegger is he? I'd reconsider my involvement if so... I see you linked a Canadian outfit, so your field of options may be limited. I recently went looking for a dupe card for a church that wanted to make CDs of services to take or send to shut-ins and elderly members. Pretty hard to find unbundled from the drive racks anymore.

.bh.
 
There are plenty of legitimate uses for burning a ton of identical discs at once. I have a few CDs from friends/relatives with wedding pics/videos. The ones who burned them one at a time sometimes took months to finish mailing them all out.
 
He burns movies but they are foreign films and all very old so there are supposedly no laws on copying them.

Either way I'm not involved with what he does I'm just building him the machine. He already has 4 burners on his PC currently but he says it's not enough.

I thought about the bandwidth limitations of SATA controller, if you guys really think it will be a problem then I might just suggest him towards the duplicator tower or something similar. I don't really see how having 10 burners in a PC would be practical even for what he does but I asked the question just to get feedback just like this.

Anyways, I think I am going to have a chat with him and tell him about what you guys have said here. mpilchfamily what you said makes a lot of sense and confirms my doubts.
 
I've added more to my earlier post. This is just to add that Nero Burning ROM had been capable of handling multiple burners at once, but I don't know the details of it as I've never tried to burn more than one copy at a time.
. Here is a very inexpensive case that could be used for a dupe rack:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811164106 . I've got an Aerocool Coolview which is like the Masstige, but has a door. These are nice because they have room for a HDD or two w/o having to take up any of the 5" bays - good if you want to house both the PC system and the dupe rack in the same case. The Antec Twelve hundred has six of the front bays taken up by HDD cages.

.bh.
 
sthe rosewill Conqueror also has nine 5" bays and is s pretty good deal right now - the one w/ free ship. I see Directron.com has some duplication control hardware to mount in a std case. Acard used to make dupe controller cards too - IDK if they are up to that now.

.bh.
 
he should build multiple systems. i have 4 burners. you cant burn more than 1 movie from a single drive without problems. the hard drives dont keep up. i have 4 hard drives, all sata and i can burn a movie from each drive at the same time with no problems.

 
You are best buying a duplicator.
Really the cost involved with doing 10 drives using a pc motherboard is a lot more than just getting a duplicator.
You would have to look at SAS or SCSI on the pc to address that many drives in a way you could use them all at once.



 
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