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baseballnut020

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December 9th, 2008 04:00

16x DVD+/-RW Drive question

Good morning all,

Have a couple of questions regarding optical drives:

Can someone please explain to me the difference between a 16X DVD+/-RW Drive and a Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable.

What are the benefits of having one drive over the other?

What are some of the things can you do with one drive, but not the other? Watch movies? Listen to CDs? Burn DVDs? Burn CDs?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Brian

TheRealFireblad

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December 9th, 2008 05:00

The benefit of having two optical drives (1x writer plus 1x ROM drive) is that you can copy discs 'on the fly'

What that means is, that you could stick a disc you want to make a copy of in the DVD-ROM drive (DVD-ROM drives are read only), and the blank disc in the DVD±RW, and copy from one disc/drive to the other immediately.

By using a single drive only, you'd have to copy the disc contents to your hard drive first, before you could burn them.

 

Standard DVD discs can hold approximately 4.7GB of data. 

Double/Dual-layer discs however, can hold almost twice as much - namely up to 8.4GB.

But obviously you need to use a drive which offers that capability - which every new drive (that I know of) does these days, and a suitable dual-layer disc as well

Double/Dual-layer drives can write to standard CD or DVD discs as well of course.  You don't have to use dual-layer discs in them :emotion-5:

baseballnut020

42 Posts

December 9th, 2008 06:00

The benefit of having two optical drives (1x writer plus 1x ROM drive) is that you can copy discs 'on the fly'

What that means is, that you could stick a disc you want to make a copy of in the DVD-ROM drive (DVD-ROM drives are read only), and the blank disc in the DVD±RW, and copy from one disc/drive to the other immediately.

By using a single drive only, you'd have to copy the disc contents to your hard drive first, before you could burn them.

 

Standard DVD discs can hold approximately 4.7GB of data. 

Double/Dual-layer discs however, can hold almost twice as much - namely up to 8.4GB.

But obviously you need to use a drive which offers that capability - which every new drive (that I know of) does these days, and a suitable dual-layer disc as well

Double/Dual-layer drives can write to standard CD or DVD discs as well of course.  You don't have to use dual-layer discs in them :emotion-5:

 

Thanks!

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