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?
Originally posted by: heat23
but then for reading DVDs is the pioneer faster or the NEC 2500a?
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.![]()
Originally posted by: heat23
but then for reading DVDs is the pioneer faster or the NEC 2500a?
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.
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.