Swapping Burners

[LongSnapper]

The wife recently bought me an eMachines T6212 Athlon 64 3200+ 1.99 GHz 1.37 GB RAM. (not the best, but a serious upgrade for me non the less)

I bought a Sony DRU-710A several months ago which is still in my old PC. The eMachines is carrying a TS-H552B. My question is should I switch out my TS-H552B for the DRU-710A? I'm asumming so, but what would be the steps in doing so after physically installing the drive? Just update firmware and all should be good?

Thanks for your help.

[techreactor]

Just swap and install drivers.

[Chewy]

http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review2630.html

swap it out

[tigerman8u]

swap the drives and the rest will/should be automatically updated

[LongSnapper]

So I swapted out DVD burners last night and in doing so I decided to just swap out my CD-Rom drive for the Sony DRU-710a. I made the Sony the Master and left my samsung DVDrw in as a slave. Do you see any potential problems with having two DVDrw drives in the same PC? I know it sounds like a bumb question and everything seemed to work ok (it got late and I only burned one disc with the sony). Will I be able to burn with both DVD rw with this type of configuration? Thanks

[Chewy]

the samsung has a few positive points

"Good writing quality on CD-R’s
Fast and perfect audio extraction
Can rip protected audio discs
“Two sheep” writer "

You should be good to go with it as slave!
Experiment with it as a dvd reader, poor dvd writer!

[LongSnapper]

Thanks Chewy!

[Chewy]

ur welcome

[petsbug]

two not too greedy but I had three, 2 internal combo's and 1 external combo. No problems at all though I only turn on the external (via firewire) when I need it cos I made it Region 1 and the others Region 2. Drive E- Pioneer 8701 muti format set to R2 Drive F- TEAC 58E, only DVD + set to region 2 & Drive G- Pioneer 8701 also but set to Region 1 for me viewing Region 1 films. So there's the answer you have a good choice which drive to use as there's a drop down window in Nero too.

[petsbug]

Also, having two Drives was excellent when you wish to COPY discs on the fly because you don't need to use your hard drive to temporarily store the image. Make sure you set the reader speed at high and the writer drive at a slower speed though.

[LongSnapper]

What do you mean copy disc's on the fly?

[Cambion7]

What do you mean copy disc's on the fly?

Instead of copying with one drive, where the disc being copied is first cached to the hard disk, you can go from the original straight away to the destination recorder without caching (copying to the hard disk). Saves a lot of time!

Regards,
Cambion7

[Chewy]

Read off of one burned disk in one drive and use nero dvd copy
to write to another disk in another drive, it helps if the source
is a good burn and the drives are on different cables. Someone did
it at 16x long ago and far away.

[LongSnapper]

Is there a guide on this, for some reason I'm still not catching all this? Do you still need to rip/anaylis/encode the DVD being copied?

[Chewy]

only for already processed already burned