CD-RW Questions??

[like2be]

Do you think it is really possible to achieve the best results when only using one device such as a CD-RW drive for gaming, audio CD listening, and backups, etc.(basically the normal CD-ROM drive activities) or should on have an additional high speed CR-R drive like the Kenwood 75X or a similiar type drive.

 

[Tauren]

CD-ROMs are sooooo cheap just pick one up anyway. It will come in handy.

 

[Shack70]

I'm not sure, but do you mean is it ok to NOT have a second cd-rom(reader) in your system and just have a burner? Yeah you can do that, especially with the prices of burners today. Most ppl have a regular reader and the burner so they don't put too much wear and tear on the burner. When backing up cds, it it usually safer to copy the dat to the HD first anyway

 

[papillon]

Some backups won't play in a burner,especially those protected with securom 2.A utility called
Playback can be used to overcome this though as well as allowing copies of Safedisc2 to be made.

 

[Noriaki]

You should check the spec sheets, but I think most burners have pretty wimpy access times compared to standalone readers. Even if they are 40x which is plenty fast transfer rate, they lack in the access time department.

But you could certainly do it, I don't know if you would get the "best" results though.

 

[billandopus]

Funny, I keep hearing that it's more "reliable" when ripping music to HDD and then back to cdr/w. While that may be true for many ... it doesn't seem to be true for me. Maybe it's my particular system I don't know. My comp sys isn't that old and i'm running a Plex 8432 and a Toshiba cdrom which is an excellent combo. I'm running a AMD k6-3 400mhz on an ASUS p5a.

Anyways, i've noticed that when saving tracks to HDD and then burning back to cdr/w is nice in that it takes advantage of DAO ... but I find that I get occassional pops and hiccups during playback/recording which really pisses me off. I don't know why this happens. All I can think is that my Nero 5.0 while saving a track overloads the cpu ... maybe. Shouldn't though.

However, when I do a copy on the fly option with Nero or doing TAO I always get a perfect copy - no problems, no audible pops etc.

So, that's my particular argument for having a complimentary cdrom ... especially one with very fast DAE. Besides, you will save your burner and make it last longer and get better performance since most readers save maybe for the very latest models will be outperformed by almost all modern cdroms in seek times, DAE and the like.

BTW, I don't seem to have any problems with non-music material though.