Hi.. I wanted the peoples opinion on this.. will on the fly burns go faster if the source and burner are on two seperate IDE chains? I'm going to build a pc soley for the use of burning.. and i want to do on the fly burns rather then copying to the hdd, and i read that it's slow and not effeciant to have two optical drives on the same chain.. that true?
Hiya clueless1, you are BEGGING for trouble if you put a reader and writer on the same IDE channel, and then try to copy on-the-fly... Please, let me persuade you to have the writer on ITS OWN CHANNEL. Please, DON'T do on-the-fly copying (even using seperate channels). OK, you may save a few minutes, but you run the GREATLY increased risk of creating faulty copies. Yeah, yeah, I know - there are going to be some people who will tell you that they have been doing on-the-fly copies for AGES and it has ALWAYS worked PERFECTLY and so on and so on.... Read about media faults, burning faults with on-the-fly, buffer-protection that doesn't protect, and even on-the-fly copies that seem to burn ok and verify ok BUT DON'T WORK PROPERLY. Just my advice, you go the way you want to... Have Fun...