Purpose of 2 DVD burners ?? why?

[jlohojo7]

I have noticed that alot of you guys have 2 burners what is the purpose I was recently given a brand new samsung lightscribe burner but i already have a super fast NEC. What is the advantages of installing 2 in the same pc? please clarify.

thanks jj

[Chewy]

You can copy a copy easier, slow readers help with old disks, etc

[bill7621]

And if you ever get a disc that your burner has trouble reading, you might luck out and the other burner will. Stick the Samsung in your box and find the advantages first hand.

[katzdvd]

my main burners, benq 1650, nec 3550, 3540, LG 4163B

A lot of us have 4+ burners, lol ! It is a disease that cannot be cured, but is only exacerbated by hanging out on here!

The only near remedy I have found is to purchase blanks in 300 + lots!

Seriously, though; If you do alot of CDR/DVD burning, it also allows you to spread the useage out over several burners, thereby not wearing out your favorite, trophy producing burner in 1 years' time (or less)!

*note* - I also run 4 burners - Benq (2) DW1655, (2)DW1650

cheers, katz

[NightTran]

kat ? is 50 or 55 which is better ?

just a question I have one 55 and one 50 install mine 55>50 and two 55 on the wing

[katzdvd]

night -

For me, I can't really see a difference in the quality between the two; as far as the NERO tool scans go, the discs produced by both burners seem to be almost identical. I am using ty media at the moment, but have some verbs waiting in the wing to be used!

Benq all the way!!!

regards, katz

[Cratima]

The main reason: if you have to copy more than one CD/DVD onto the hard drive, a second unit helps a lot.

It is also a precaution method: if one of the DVD burner fails, you just have to insert the disk into the other one.

[techreactor]

simple...to burn 2 DVD's simultaneously

[Chewy]

my tests found that feature to be inefficient

[vw56german]

I thought it was because the empty drive bays get lonely if they are not used.

[Chewy]

Those empty bays if arranged right provide air flow for cooler burning.
Two burners in a 4 drive case works great.

[jlohojo7]

can you rip/burn 2 at the same time ??

[Chewy]

that would an option for advanced users with premium machines

[RFBurns]

What is the advantages of installing 2 in the same pc? please clarify.

thanks jj

The best answer would be for redundancy.

Its like running wire from point A to point B....its better to end up with more than enough wire than not enough!

[katzdvd]

Two burners in a 4 drive case works great

Chewy, do you have a 4 in the same case?

I do; I didn't give a lot of thought to the cooling/air flow, since they are installed top front; I was figuring since most of the heat is generated center/top/rear, (except for the HD area) that 4 burners stacked on top would be okay?

katz