Burning Rig

bigsaucybob

bigsaucybob

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Just gathering some ideas here.

I want a rig simply for burnind DVD's, multiple ones at the same time.

I am not sure but what do you need when doing this. Say I want to copy one DVD (legally), I put it in one drive then can I make it so it gets copied to say 3 other drives. I am not sure how this would work.

For Example, drive A, B, C, and D.

The original DVD is in A, can I copy A to B, C, and D at the same time?

OR

The original DVD's are in A and C, can I copy A to B and C to D?

And then what resources do I need most, RAM or CPU?
 
AFAIK, you cannot write 3 DVDs from one drive at the same time, because it can't read 3 different places at the same time.

As to your second question, yes. I do that.

I would say RAM and CPU equally.
 
Bobo said:
AFAIK, you cannot write 3 DVDs from one drive at the same time, because it can't read 3 different places at the same time.

As to your second question, yes. I do that.

I would say RAM and CPU equally.
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How much RAM would you say would be efficent, 2GB?

And what is the cheapest most efficent CPU you think would be the best?

Emperor_nero said:
you could copy the files to a folder your hd and then make copy of that folder and burn to each drive?
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I would but for some reason I think I would copy them incorrectly or burn them incorrectly, so they wouldnt play correctly.
 
I wonder what you are doing. O_O.. *cough* *cough* copyright...xD
Anywayz, is the case Atx standard? Cuz it seems appealing.
 
well if you're doing video conversion i suggest a dual core processor and an ati x1k series video card (avivo video convert = uber nice) and 1gb memory

if not, then any old processor and 512mb ram should do it... sempron or celeron should do the trick..
i also suggest that you get a large hard drive if you plan on backing the dvd's up to your hard drive... and 2-4 dvd burners (preferably the same model) along with nero 7 of some sort... it'll give you the option to burn with multiple recorders.
as far as the other specs go, its up to you..

nero 7 also has an option to burn from reader to recorder... like you suggested... this is probably hard drive or RAM dependant... but i think that max cache size is 80mb so 512mb should do fine anyways...

the optical drives are the biggest bottleneck, so worry more about having 4 of those rather than a better cpu or memory.
if you want to back stuff up to your hard drive, raid 0 might be worth looking into...
 
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b3atofang3l said:
I wonder what you are doing. O_O.. *cough* *cough* copyright...xD
Anywayz, is the case Atx standard? Cuz it seems appealing.
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Nope, no copyright infringement here. thanks though

fade2green514 said:
well if you're doing video conversion i suggest a dual core processor and an ati x1k series video card (avivo video convert = uber nice) and 1gb memory

if not, then any old processor and 512mb ram should do it... sempron or celeron should do the trick..
i also suggest that you get a large hard drive if you plan on backing the dvd's up to your hard drive... and 2-4 dvd burners (preferably the same model) along with nero 7 of some sort... it'll give you the option to burn with multiple recorders.
as far as the other specs go, its up to you..

nero 7 also has an option to burn from reader to recorder... like you suggested... this is probably hard drive or RAM dependant... but i think that max cache size is 80mb so 512mb should do fine anyways...

the optical drives are the biggest bottleneck, so worry more about having 4 of those rather than a better cpu or memory.
if you want to back stuff up to your hard drive, raid 0 might be worth looking into...
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1. I will not be backing up any files, yet.
2. I would love to keep it under $400-$500, possible?

blacklabelrum said:
Hey try a SCSI configuration , You can have up to seven drives at once.
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If I were to need to backup files, then I would definitely go with a SCSI config since I can get SCSI drives for cheap.
 
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