DVD drives

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Hi All
Can some body tell me if its better to have two drives one DVD and
one cd/r, or will one surfice?


thanks
 
Hi All
Can some body tell me if its better to have two drives one DVD and
one cd/r, or will one surfice?


thanks
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You can use one. I like to have two since CDR burners are so cheap
now. I got two Liteons reboxed for fairly cheap around $20 or so.
Actually it was supposed to be free but I got ripped off of some
rebates but still not a bad deal. One is still in its box as a back
up. Some may think some CD burners still have a slight edge against
some copy protection, I remember some tests at one site that said
Liteon burners of a certain model would work againt some cactus shield
protection where others couldnt . I think thats what it was called -
some sort of audio CD protection. I dont hear that much nowadays
though.

Also some may think say a Liteon or Plextor or something copies audio
at a higher quality or something with EAC etc . Not sure about that
one.

Also many DVD burners have fairly slow CD burning speeds in the 16x
range or so. I think Liteon and maybe a few others are the exception.
Liteons burners have fast CD speeds in their DVD burners. IF the DVD
burner cost a lot where you live you might want to get a CD burner so
you dont wear out your DVD burner if you burn a lot of CDs.

If you play a lot of DVDs and CDs then maybe a DVD rom drive is a
better companion to a DVD burner.

Its getting to be a moot point with tons of rebate sales on DVD
burners down to $70 or so the last two months.
 
I prefer having two so I can be listening to a music CD and burning a data
CD at the same time.
 
Hi All
Can some body tell me if its better to have two drives one DVD and
one cd/r, or will one surfice?


thanks
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Two is more convenient, but you can do fine with one. Early on, the
general recommendation was that you should go with two drives, a
???ROM drive for regular reading duties and a burner drive to do your
writing chores. The idea being that the burners are more complicated
and are likely to have a shorter lifespan, and so you shouldn't put
too much wear and tear on them (especially since they were expensive
as heck back then).

I'm finding that the burner drives aren't quite as fragile as people
originally thought, and often, people replace them with faster or
newer tech drives well before the drives die. The projected lifespan
of a burner is something like 2-5 years. Some people get lemons that
die in 1 year or less, but most people are finding that their drives
are still working well beyond the 2 year mark. That's sort of
important, as most people will have replaced the drive or their whole
system by that 2 year mark.

Anyways, nutshell, one will suffice. However, for what you want, you
may as well just get a DVD burner, as combo drives aren't much cheaper
and they don't do DVD burning.
 
Kirkside said:
Hi All
Can some body tell me if its better to have two drives one DVD and
one cd/r, or will one surfice?


thanks
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I've got two, I'd prefer just the one though. One uses less space etc
and I never use both at the same time.
 
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