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I'm putting a lot of my old tapes onto dvd. Some of them I would like to make 6 or 8 copies for family members. I have 2 burners and can burn 2 at a time. How many drives can I add to this unit. I'm using WinXP Pro, sp3 Media Creator 7. My mother board will accept 2 more drives. Can Media Creator burn to more than 2 at a time? Thanks
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 05:58 AM
It can burn to every drive you have but at a point of diminishing returns…
First it will burn all at the speed of the slowest burner.
Then it cannot burn faster than you PC can pass an uninterrupted data stream to multiple burners.
In other words, if 2 burners can burn at 12X but 4 burners can only burn at 2X, you lose!
Since you are only running V7 it is likely you don't have the PC Horsepower to do this sort of thing with many burners.
First it will burn all at the speed of the slowest burner.
Then it cannot burn faster than you PC can pass an uninterrupted data stream to multiple burners.
In other words, if 2 burners can burn at 12X but 4 burners can only burn at 2X, you lose!
Since you are only running V7 it is likely you don't have the PC Horsepower to do this sort of thing with many burners.
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 06:06 AM
QUOTE (lynn402 @ Jan 31 2009, 07:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I'm putting a lot of my old tapes onto dvd. Some of them I would like to make 6 or 8 copies for family members. I have 2 burners and can burn 2 at a time. How many drives can I add to this unit. I'm using WinXP Pro, sp3 Media Creator 7. My mother board will accept 2 more drives. Can Media Creator burn to more than 2 at a time? Thanks
Lynn402
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I do have a question. Did you burn your project to an ISO file and just copy (using Creator Classic, I believe) the ISO file to the discs? I just did a dozen on one drive and it took about 1/2 to 3/4 hours. Labeling took longer !
If you did not burn to an ISO file, the program has to encode the project as many times as you put new discs in the drive. That could take a lot of extra, unnecessary time.
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Velocity Micro ProMagix ©HD 60; evga x58 motherboard, Intel i7 @2.93, 6G RAM, EVGA Nvidia 560TI superclocked video card, SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme audio card, Buffalo external blu-ray burner; Creator 2011.
Laptop - Windows 7 Home
Dell XPS 1645, Intel I7 1,6G with overdrive ,4G RAM, 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730, Sound Blaster X-Fi MB Panzer, 500G hard drive.
Apple =OSX 10.5
MacBook Pro; 15.4-inch widescreen display, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 200GB hard drive, 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. ILife 08, Toast 10, Final Cut Express 4 and Photoshop 4.
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Posted 01 February 2009 - 06:47 AM
QUOTE (sknis @ Feb 1 2009, 06:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I do have a question. Did you burn your project to an ISO file and just copy (using Creator Classic, I believe) the ISO file to the discs? I just did a dozen on one drive and it took about 1/2 to 3/4 hours. Labeling took longer !
If you did not burn to an ISO file, the program has to encode the project as many times as you put new discs in the drive. That could take a lot of extra, unnecessary time.
If you did not burn to an ISO file, the program has to encode the project as many times as you put new discs in the drive. That could take a lot of extra, unnecessary time.
I do have ISO files for all the tapes. My current drives are Pioneer A105 and A108. My CPU is and Intel 3.2 and I have 3 gig ram. Lots of hard drive space. Running both burners at the same time, burn speed is listed at 4.2X. My longest project which is slightly over an hour takes 15 minutes. I was just wondering if I could speed things up a bit. I guess I'll same my money on the new drives. Thanks
Lynn402
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