Which drives to keep in my case?

[ThomS]

I have one fairly fast(my fastest) cd burner and a lite-on 16x dvd-rom drive. I plan on adding a DVD R\RW this week. Should I ditch the dvd drive or what? You can't copy a dvd from drive to drive can you?

Thanks for the help.

 

[nick1985]

ditch the dvd

pm me if you are interested in selling/trading it

 

[Anubis]

depends, does you DVD burner that you are getting also burn CDs? is it does ditch the CD burner if not keep teh Cd burner and get rid of the DVD

 

[ThomS]

It burns cds slowly

 

[chorner]

can always dump your DVD's to your drive then copy it over ... I'd get rid of the DVD player

 

[Sheriff]

Keep the fastest and newest...and yes you can copy non protected DVD's straight from the Drives

 

[ThomS]

assuming i keep all 3 how would I set them up. Shouldn't the burnner be slaved to the ROM drive. IN this case(1 cd burner, 1 dvd rom, 1 dvd burner) how should I set them up.

 

[araczynski]

Originally posted by: ThomS
assuming i keep all 3 how would I set them up. Shouldn't the burnner be slaved to the ROM drive. IN this case(1 cd burner, 1 dvd rom, 1 dvd burner) how should I set them up.

i'd make the dvd burner a master and the cd burner a slave, then the dvd player a slave to whatever you have open i guess.

this is assuming you won't be burnign a cd and a dvd at the same time, therefore only one of the drives will be normally active and there'll be no bus contention. in any case, keep your source and your destination (when copying/burning) on seperate buses for best throughput.

but then again it depends on how fast your dvd player is, don't want to put the slow reading device to be a source and trying to burn on a fast dvd/cd burner, but then again they're not all that fast yet as far as i know...

 

[aka1nas]

I'm doing the same 3 drive setup and here's what I do:
Primary:
Master: Boot Drive
Slave: DVD-ROM

Secondary:
Master: DVD-Burner
Slave: CD-Burner

Secondary drives can be reversed as needed.

This works well if you are limited to just 2 IDE channels as for CD or DVD copying you can use the DVD-ROM as the reader and not deal with two drives fighting over the same IDE bus. For burning from the hard drive to a CD or DVD, then the same is true also. The only bottleneck will be if you read from the DVD-ROM to the hard drive, which you can avoid because you can read any disc from the other channel's drives. Does this make sense?

P.S. If you have a secondary IDE controller or are doing RAID, it's even better because you remove the possible DVD-ROM-->HD bottleneck

 

[ThomS]

thanks for the post I will follow that advice.