CDROM or BURNER !!!!

[Sharkmeat]

Question is there a diff of loading sothware with a CDROM compaired to a BURNER??,in other words will a 32X CDROM copy sothware to HD as fast as a BURNER at X32 speed??.
More Logical just to have a BURNER if it alone will do the job.That way you can kill two birds with one stone.

 

[Sugadaddy]

yes, it works the same way.

 

[Wingznut]

Recently I've used: Toshiba 48x, Kenwood 72x True-X, Pioneer 10xDVD/32x, Pioneer 16xDVD/40x, Plextor 12x/10x/32x, HP 10x/4x/32x.

All seemed exactly the same, except the Kenwood was a little quicker... But not by much at all.

So... Get the burner and kill both of the birds.

 

[bacillus]

I always believe in using the burner just for burning & the cd/dvd drive for the rest!

 

[gopunk]

well you can kill both birds, but you won't be able to do on the fly copies.

 

[Sharkmeat]

THx,s for the info & input:
Now;I think I will get the second burner,that way I can kill the two birds in flight .

 

[Shockwave]

I have a burner, a DVD and a CDROM. That way, I can use the DVD to copy on the fly (Its a Toshiba, it'll read anything) to my Pletor, which will burn anything. I use the CDROM for all the other crap to keep the wear and tear and the other drives to a minimum. My Plex is the older 8x's, which isnt limited on SD2, so I'm rather self concious on how much I use it.

 

[TRUMPHENT]

I have had several programs that, for some reason would not install from various CDROM drives over the years, but they work fine in another drive. Today, I try to install a new program from my Samsung CDROM drive. If that does not work, it goes into the TEAC CDRW. I am sure others have had similar experiences. Until you have two different drives, you might blame the CD in error. I do not experience this as much as I did in the past. No matter what drive reads the CD, once it is installed, the program is installed. I used to take CSR calls for a vendor and heard customers telling me the cd we shipped was bad. No, they couldn't be bothered to try it in a different drive. I am sure now that more and more people have multiple CDROM capable drives in their systems, once one drive has issues with a disk, the user immediately tries it in the other drive. The source of the files does not matter for most programs. That is why the network administrator can wake up your computer with a ping and commence with updates while you sleep.