Dual DVD Drives=Dual DVD Burning-Is it Possible????

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01tacomaman

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I am building my computer and I was wondering If I buy dual DVD burning drives can I burn 2 different movies at one time? Also I think I have tried this with a external burner on my laptop and it did not work and I was Using nero 7 ultra. Can someone guide me the right way and let me know if this is possible?
 
They've gotta be identical drives.

Something will most likely go wrong.

People who actually need to duplicate a lot of cd's use scsi controllers and daisychain drives together. This is the best way to do it.
 
He's not wanting to make two copies of a DVD, he's wanting to do two different operations at the same time, which is easily possible. The only problem is that most programs only allow you to do one at a time and won't allow you to open up two of the program at once. Just find another program similar to Nero and use it to burn with one drive while you use Nero to burn with the other. I have burned different CD's at the same time using this method.
 
So you dont happen to know any programs that allow you to burn 2 dvd at once? or know another good burning dvd program like nero?
 
You might have problems if your system isn't beefy enough, and it will be real slow and have problems if the two DVD drives are on the same IDE channel.
 
But are your two drives on the same IDE channel (same cable)? If so, you will have problems and it will be REALLY slow, because only one device can communicate at a time, so it will be:

Hard drive transfers data to RAM
then Drive 1 picks up data from RAM and writes to disc
then Drive 2 picks up data from RAM and writes to disc
then Drive 1 picks up data from RAM and writes to disc
then Drive 2 picks up data from RAM and writes to disc
etc, etc

But if you had them on seperate channels, it could do stuff with the drives almost simultaneously.
 
i don't even know of 2 different cd recording programs that use seperate cd drive controller services that tolerate each others existance.

I know the built in xp burning service messes with roxio, and nero messes with everything.

If you burn a cd with nero, you have to restart your computer before being able to burn another cd with a different program most of the time.

It'd be hard to get this to work, i would think.
 
I believe you can have the same program running more then once, I've used Nero to burn a CD and also burn a DVD at the same time. Although if they are on the same IDE channel, then the burning will go alot slower, and theres a higher chance for errors.
 
I don't think it matters the setting/drive configuration as much as it does the software. My computer can easily run two DVDs at once, but I keep getting errors when I try to burn. I tried using two sessions of DeepBurner, and the one burning a DVD(I was using a DVD-RW and CD-RW) would always "take over" while the other drive would just freeze.

However, right now I'm burning a DVD using DVD Writing Tool(from TMPEGnc DVD Author) and an audio disk using Deep Burner. I started the DVD later and the program had a real hard time opening because it couldn't access the other drive while it was in use. However, once I finally got around that little problem, both drives are burning along quite nicely...

So, is it possible. Totally. Do the drive need to be on the same channel? Not at all(using Firewire and IDE) Is it practical? With the correct software, sure! Would I ever do it again? Nah :P

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Proof if anyone's curious :P

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Playing a Mythbusters DVD I recorded using my DVD-Recorder and Crash

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Burning that Mythbusters DVD and an audio CD. Now how DVD Writing Tool still has (Not Responding) showing up :P But yes, it is working!
 
well, i learned something new

i tried it as well

this will really help a lot, cause i have my 500GB drive filled with downloaded stuff that i need to move onto discs, but all i have are the cheap-o 4x discs. This'll save me a LITTLE time atleast.

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thank god i ran diskeeper last night :)
 
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Is that nero running? I guess it does a better job than Deepburner :P Or maybe Deepburner would do better if I burnt two DVDs at once... Who knows, I might try sometime.
 
don't let the picture fool you, that's only going at 4x, and every time utorrent finishes a file, it automatically copies it onto the drive i'm burning from, so my buffer drops.....

haven't hit the buffer underrun protection yet, but it's been dropping down to the 30% and 20% range before fixing itself

and i should have waited until i was done burning all my files onto discs before i started deleting them

i've been deleting them as i go, and now i've been having buffer problems because fragmentation is starting
 
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