Finally! I have two working optical drives!

The NEC 40x CD-RW that came with my computer has been on the fritz lately (any burns above 16x would result in power calibration errors). So on Wednesday, I emailed Dell and had them send out a new burner...and they gave me a 48x LG drive (supposedly better, according to those in the GH forum) in its place! Also, I ordered a DVD-ROM drive from Newegg on Tuesday, and it got here today. Both drives arrived within an hour of each other...one from Airborne, the other from Fedex.



Disc to disc copies are so much faster! No imaging the CD to my hard drive first. Also, I can finally watch DVDs with my Z560s providing the sound.

 

Uh...w00t?

 

[Ogg]

wOOt

 

[FoBoT]

:sun:

 

[conjur]

Shoulda got a DVD burner

 

[Ameesh]

whats the big deal? i have 4 in one computer at home.

 

Originally posted by: conjur
Shoulda got a DVD burner

I wanted to, but it just makes me too nervous to think that I'll (hopefully) soon be able to do a DVD-to-DVD-R copy with no compression and no time-consuming configuration. I'm going to wait until multi-layer DVD-burners arrive.

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

I installed both CD-RW and DVD drives when I built my first-generation Athlon system three or four years ago.

 

[EvilYoda]

hehe, welcome to the late 90s Mike congrats

 

Originally posted by: Ameesh
whats the big deal? i have 4 in one computer at home.

Heh, yeah, but I've been living with only one optical drive...a limping-along NEC CD-RW drive. It feels good to be functional again.

 

[Brutuskend]

Woot.

I've got a CDRW a DVD and a DVD RW in mine right now.

WHY? I had the DVD and CDRW installed when I put my DVD RW in and never bothered to take them out.