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POLL: Do you use your DVD burner as your DVD ROM also ?

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: sm8000
My main PC has a CD-ROM, a CD-RW, a DVD-ROM, and will soon have a DVD-RW.
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Jeez, all IDE?
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Nope, the first three are SCSI (hi Sundog!). The DVD-RW will be IDE.

Sundog, is your Plextor a 1.05 or 1.14 firmware drive? If the latter, I have a beta firmware Plextor sent me that you may like. As for DVD-ROMs, I have a bunch of the Pioneer slot-loaders but I decided on the Toshiba SD-M1711, much quieter for watching DVDs. I have a few extra of these too.
 
for the price of dvd writers nowadays...who cares!!

I use my liteon 16x dvd-rom mostly because it reads faster than my NEC 3540 dvd burner
 
If I had a separate DVD-ROM I would have had 3 optical devices in my rig. That's way too much thank you. I keep Plextor Premium for working with CDs and BenQ 1640 for working with DVDs. That's it.
 
Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
you are all nuts. no such thing as "saving" your dvd burner by not using it to read discs. :roll:
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You sure about that? Seems to me that a "combo" drive (both DVD-ROM and DVD burner) has a heavier mechanism b/c of the two different lasers (one for reading, one for writing, if they have two lasers). I think you'd be saving yourself some wear and tear, but correct me if I'm misinformed.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
When DVD burners were still "expensive", it was commonly thought that you should "save it" by using a DVD ROM drive to do everything else (aside from burning discs). Is it still the same mindset nowadays ?

I use my DVD burner to read discs... but it's only because I used up all 4 of my IDE "slots"... I have a DVDROM just sitting here unused and I am too lazy to buy/install an IDE controller... (until this thread... recommend one if you care to). The reason I still want to use the DVDROM is because it's slot-load and it's got a faster read speed.
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who exactly thought that?
 
Yep. It wasn't just DVD burners that had this 'myth'... it was back during the CDR days too. I had a HP CDRW that easily burnt well over 2000 CDRs, and played twice as many, and it still works to this day (only 4x speed, so i don't use it much).
 
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
you are all nuts. no such thing as "saving" your dvd burner by not using it to read discs. :roll:
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You sure about that? Seems to me that a "combo" drive (both DVD-ROM and DVD burner) has a heavier mechanism b/c of the two different lasers (one for reading, one for writing, if they have two lasers). I think you'd be saving yourself some wear and tear, but correct me if I'm misinformed.
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what wear and tear?
 
so wait, you're worried about protecting this $50 investment, because if you use it "improperly," it could break in 10 years? I think it might be obselete by then anyway.
 
I had a separate DVD Burner for my desktop but now I have a DVD+/-RW Drive on my lappy, no room for a separate DVD-ROM.
 
Most people wouldn't know or wouldn't notice it:
About speed, the CDROM will be slowest, it has a buffer of like 128KB, a DVDROM usually has a 512KB buffer, it'll generally be quicker with CD's as well. A DVDRW drive usually has 2MB (some Plextors have 8MB) and plays DVD movies smoothly, you can rewind and forward in a burner much more easily than you can in a DVDROM drive (provided both are 16x).
 
I have a 12x10x32x CD-RW drive that I use for everything except dvds, a DVD-ROM to read dvds, and a 4x DVD+RW to write dvds.
 
I stopped caring about these things some time in the past year or two. They're practically giving away DVD recorder drives in cereal boxes these so one drive and save my energy and mental CPU cycles for other things (like posting here, heh).
 
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