Re: DVD reader or CD burner should go in favor of DVD burner?

From: Miss Perspicacia Tick (misstick_at_lancre.dw)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:15:18 +0100

roadrunner wrote:
> 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 are:
> "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.

Lose the DVD-ROM. DVD burners can read as well as write, and dedicated CD
burners are usually faster at burning CDs. I have both with no problems
(actually my CD burner is a combi drive).

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