Running 3 optical drives in one PC?

[Sniper82]

I currently have a HP IDE burner and a Creative CD-Rom in my PC. I have never ran more than 2 in a PC before. I just bought a Aopen DVD-Rom online and am waiting on it which should be getting here. Anyway was wondering with all 3 in 1 PC will it use more power even when they ain't being in use?

What I really want to know is do optical drive use power if when they ain't being used(watching movies,installing stuff,ect)?

EDIT:what would be the best way to hook them all 3 up for best performance? I have 2 raid channels(which can act as ATA/IDE) and 2 normal IDE/ATA channels. I have my HD,burner and CD-rom on a separate channel each.

 

[SnowPunk98]

I have a CDROM CDRW and DVD with no RAID works fine

 

[DoOLiE11]

tehre no problems with having three optical devices in one computer..


in your situation just put all four devices on there own seperate channels since u ahve 4 channels..

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Sell the CD-Rom drive, you don't really need it anymore...

 

[Sniper82]

Well I could sell it but I was kind of thinking about keeping it just incase something burns up or I build another system. What would a Creative 52x CD-Rom go for used anyway?

$20-$25 tops shipped?

 

[John]

I run 3 optical drives w/ no problem.

[*]CDRW primary master
[*]CDROM secondary master
[*]DVDROM secondary slave
[*]HDD on ATA100 controller card as master

 

[HouRman]

Yeah ur lucky u have a channel for each drive..

I only have 2 IDE, one goes to hard drive and CD rom, other goes to DVD and CDRW.

The drives draw more power if they are spinning, not if they are idle. So you'll draw a lot of power if you are watching a DVD while copying a CD on the fly. hehe