More than one device?

[mrfederalist]

Is there any value in having more than one CD/DVD burner? Can you copy one CD to another? I'm going to build a computer and the only optical device I've had is a CD reader.


Thanks

 

[baracuda73]

you can copy from one cd to another but only need one burner for that a regular cd/dvd rom would work as well. But just about as quick to copy cds without the second drive (nero disc copy ...etc) which copies if to hd then to disk.

 

[fishmahn]

Only reason to have 2 burners is so you can burn 2 disks at the same time - not something I do regularly...

A direct CD/DVD-to-CD/DVD copy can be done with 1 burner and 1 reader, but most if not all burner software can do a copy with just a burner - it reads the source to the hard drive then you swap in a blank and it burns it.

So, really, only 1 drive is needed - a burner, since it can read too.

Mike.