should my DVDR drive replace my CDRW or DVDROM?

[heat23]

I currently have a Pioneer 12x (maybe 16x?) DVD-ROM and a Liteon 52x CDRW. I am planning on getting a NEC2500A DVD Writer. Now the question is, which drive do I take out? my CDRW or my DVD-ROM? Which do yall think I should keep?

 

[Sid59]

i'd take out the pioneer 12x .. doesn't do anything but read dvds.

the liteon is fast for cd burning.

i'm actually thinking of replacing my plextor 40x12x12 with a liteon combo drive.

 

[heat23]

but then for reading DVDs is the pioneer faster or the NEC 2500a?

 

[blodhi74]

I was in the boat ... had a 6x DVD and a 52X lite-On CD burner .... got a lite-on DVD burner and replaced it with DVD drive ....I still use the CD burner since it burns CDs faster than the DVD burner

 

[blodhi74]

Originally posted by: heat23
but then for reading DVDs is the pioneer faster or the NEC 2500a?

NEC reads DVD s @ 12X

 

[SickBeast]

How fast does the NEC burn CDs? If it's as fast/faster than your current burner, then that's what to get rid of. It's nice to have a seperate DVD drive for your ripping; basically you can put a blank in the burner, the movie in the DVD drive, then click "shrink" in DVD-shrink and walk away from the situation. Come back and you'll have your movie.

 

[blodhi74]

CDRs burn @ 32X on NEC

 

[SickBeast]

Tough decision then. I might be tempted to buy a new case in that situation.

 

[heat23]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
How fast does the NEC burn CDs? If it's as fast/faster than your current burner, then that's what to get rid of. It's nice to have a seperate DVD drive for your ripping; basically you can put a blank in the burner, the movie in the DVD drive, then click "shrink" in DVD-shrink and walk away from the situation. Come back and you'll have your movie.

I like the idea of that. I think i'm gonna do that. Thanks!

 

[SickBeast]

YW :beer:

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: heat23
but then for reading DVDs is the pioneer faster or the NEC 2500a?

It doesn't matter how fast your computer reads the DVD's if you are just watching them, if you're ripping them to hard drive, the pioneer will be slightly faster, but even at 2.4x with dvd decryptor its like a 15-20min job, I have a dvd-rom a cd-rw and a dvd-rw/cd-rw drive I just unplugged the dvd-rom because it was useless and was causing some problems.

 

[blodhi74]

Originally posted by: DaiShan

Originally posted by: heat23
but then for reading DVDs is the pioneer faster or the NEC 2500a?

It doesn't matter how fast your computer reads the DVD's if you are just watching them, if you're ripping them to hard drive, the pioneer will be slightly faster, but even at 2.4x with dvd decryptor its like a 15-20min job, I have a dvd-rom a cd-rw and a dvd-rw/cd-rw drive I just unplugged the dvd-rom because it was useless and was causing some problems.

true that

 

[ROJAS]

I'm running Liteon 52 speed cdrw burner, Sony DRU-530a DVD burner, 52 Liteon cdrom player. These are attached to Promise ultra133 IDE controller, leaving primary/secondary IRQ 14/15 open for hard drives.

 

[mechBgon]

One factor for anyone considering dual burners: OEM burning software may be tied to one specific brand/model of burner, and freak out when you try to use it with your other burner. If you have full-version Nero, you're ok, but if you have OEM-bundled Nero, then I hear this is what happens.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: ROJAS
I'm running Liteon 52 speed cdrw burner, Sony DRU-530a DVD burner, 52 Liteon cdrom player. These are attached to Promise ultra133 IDE controller, leaving primary/secondary IRQ 14/15 open for hard drives.

That's interesting. I thought that the Promise controllers past the Ultra100, no longer officially supports ATAPI devices? Have you had any issues running the opticals, glitches, errors, software incompatibilities, etc?