Chewy....question, please..

[GWhite]

Have recently added two USB cabled hard drives, one for a/v storage, the other as a backup for my system drive. The question is about the two burners I have added to the system. The C: drive is primary master and
the Lite-On 812s is primary slave used mostly as a reader. The Lite-On 1693s is cabled as secondary master and used as the burner while the secondary slave is the CD-rom burner. All firmware has been updated and the hardware works great but I would like to know if the burners should be cabled differently to get the maximum in performance.

Thanks
Gary

[Chewy]

Well if the 812 is used as reader, what's it reading to(hard drive/external)?
That's fine but the system drive and 812 should never be used at the same time for any sustained transfers. The usb2 is what kills performance, figure
heavy cpu use and a maximum of 10-15MB/s(~8Xrip/burn speeds).
I would have added a pci controller card and had 2 internal hard drives and my 2 best optical drives all as standalone masters with 4 cables.

[GWhite]

The USB drives are turned on only when backups are done or something needs to be put in storage. Therefore they are not contenders for the cpu during a/v activity. I see what you mean about the 812s reading to the system hard drive and will move it to the secondary slave position temporarily to replace the cd-rom burner. I"ll pick up the new card and cables and redo the entire hardware hookup for internal steup as you recommend.

Thanks for the qwik come back
Gary

[Chewy]

It takes me about 10-12 minutes to rip a standard movie, about 2 to 4 minutes to rip with shrink from one hard drive to another. Actually pulled off a
16x cof in 6+ minutes once. All these times are best case scenarios.
YMMV