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CD/DVD duplicators - what's inside?

MichaelD

MichaelD

Lifer
Been looking at CD/DVD duplicators; the kind that are housed in a full tower, w/individual drives.

They typically have one "Master drive" where you put the original disc, and a bunch of writers...along with a "control panel" that fits in one 5.25" bay w/a LCD display where you pick "copy" "compare" "erase" or whatever.

OK; CD/DVD drive = IDE drive. Can have two per channel.

What's inside one of them? A motherboard with a bunch of PCI card, IDE controllers attached to the drives? How does it boot/run off that "controller drive" thing w/the lCD display?
 
Inside the tower is a controller board, a power supply and the drives. Some duplicator towers have hard drives to save disc images.

Here's an example of a controller board: http://www.cybersprinter.com/item_description.asp?prodid=114283

It's probably cheaper to buy a duplicator already built... especially after you buy the controller, a tower, a power supply to support all those optical drives, and a hard drive. And they will warranty it too. But it would be fun to build one too!
 
We had SCSI duplicators with six drives per channel. Plextor drives with caddies. Yes that was a while ago. Now everything is ISCSI based.
 
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