External DVD-ROM Drive

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  1. haza12d

    haza12d Regular member

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    Hey all, Just got two new drives, a Plextor PX-740A and a BenQ DW1655. The problem I have is that the tower I have only supports 2 5.25 drives and I didn't want these drives to be doing most of the reading and ripping. I was wondering if anyone is using an external DVD-ROM drive to read/rip and if they've had any issues making backups with this method.
     
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    i'm using a external DVD-ROM drive to read/rip and haven't had any probelms with it.
     
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    Cool. Is the burner you have originally an external or an internal in an enclosure? Are you running USB or Firewire?
     
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    i brought a external 5.25 case and brought the dvd-rom drive then i put it insided the case. The case is usb 2.0.
     
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    Nice, thanks for the info. I'll make that my project this weekend. =)
     
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    your welcome and also www.newegg.com has good price on external 5.25 cases and dvd-rom drives.
     
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    Can you back up / decrypt from a external dvd rom strait to a internal dvd burner ? or will it have to be stored to the harddrive first?

    Sorry , i know this is a dumb question but can someone answer it.
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