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DVD reader or CD burner should go in favor of DVD burner?
Clear Day
I need some advice, please. I have a 2800+ Athlon w/512 meg ram, 120 gig HD, DVD reader and CD burner, and using Windows XP Home as my OS. I just bought a new Sony DRU-530A DVD burner and want opinions on which of the disc drives I presently have would you sacrifice? (I only have 2 bays available) I bought it (Sony) to burn Data DVD's to b/u my files/system. I also want to use it to copy some DVD's I OWN and to burn some of my best VHS movies to DVD. I deal a lot w/mp3 files, some pictures and a few videos I've dl'd from the net. The drives I presently have a "JLMS XJ-HD 166S" as the DVD reader and, "LITE-ON LTR-48246S" as the CD burner. I also use a Sony Mini-Disk player/recorder, model MZ-S1 which requires the "Sonic-Stage" software to download mp3 files to this device. The new Sony DRU-530A DVD burner I want to install has the Sony format "ATRAC-3" for compressing mp3's down to the point one can put 490+ songs on a CD-R. I don't use this presently but will when I buy a new portable cd player, it will be a Sony w/ATRAC-3. My question is; if my best option is to keep the present CD burner I have and replace the DVD reader w/the Sony DRU-530A DVD burner will my 2 CD burners work in harmony or could there be a conflict? And lastly; if I keep the DVD reader I have and delete the CD burner for the new Sony DVD burner could I "read" DVD files directly from the DVD reader and copy to the DVD burner? Which would be more advantageous? Any help will be GREATLY appreciated! Thank You. |
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DVD reader or CD burner should go in favor of DVD burner?
Alex Nichol wrote:
roadrunner wrote: I have a 2800+ Athlon w/512 meg ram, 120 gig HD, DVD reader and CD burner, and using Windows XP Home as my OS. I just bought a new Sony DRU-530A DVD burner and want opinions on which of the disc drives I presently have would you sacrifice? (I only have 2 bays available) I bought it (Sony) to burn Data DVD's to b/u my files/system. I also want to use it to copy some DVD's I OWN and to burn some of my best VHS movies to DVD. I deal a lot w/mp3 files, some pictures and a few videos I've dl'd from the net. The DVD burner will also burn CDs, so I would keep the two DVD devices and take the CD out. Sorry, Alex, I have to disagree. A CD burner will burn faster (my DVD burns CDs at 24x, while my combi drive burns at 2½ times that, ie 60x). Therefore, if the CD burner burns faster than the DVD, then I'd lose the DVD-ROM as the DVD burner will, obviously, read DVDs as well. Of course, I have the best of both worlds, as the combi will read DVDs. |
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