Why have more then one CD/DVD RW drive?

[allenw1223]

I have one LG 22X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive on my system.
In configurator builds you are offered a second drive as an option.
Also in packaged systems (i'm smart enough to stay away from those) they package 2 drives.
I see the need for only one all purpose read write cd/dvd drive.
Is there any reason or application need to have 2 drives on your system?

 

[Outlander_04]

Its very convenient to be able to copy discs on the fly . While the first is being read the second one is already burning

 

[tecmo34]

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I have two DVD drives; one Blu-Ray and one Dual-Layer Burner. I use the Blu-Ray for playing movies and as the main drive when I'm coping a disc. It does make it very convenient for coping disc. You don't have to wait for the disc to burn to the HD, pop out, put the DVD+R disc in and than copy the disc. You just hit copy and it does the rest. Is it a most No... You can copy with one DVD drive just like with two drives... Yes.

Now I have heard that having two DVD burners can cause driver issues and faulty burns. Don't know if they is 100% true or not but that is the feedback I've been given when I started building computers. I try and keep one just as a DVD reader and one as a burner to avoid possible issues.

 

[allenw1223]

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I have two DVD drives; one Blu-Ray and one Dual-Layer Burner. I use the Blu-Ray for playing movies and as the main drive when I'm coping a disc. It does make it very convenient for coping disc. You don't have to wait for the disc to burn to the HD, pop out, put the DVD+R disc in and than copy the disc. You just hit copy and it does the rest. Is it a most No... You can copy with one DVD drive just like with two drives... Yes.

Now I have heard that having two DVD burners can cause driver issues and faulty burns. Don't know if they is 100% true or not but that is the feedback I've been given when I started building computers. I try and keep one just as a DVD reader and one as a burner to avoid possible issues.

It may be awhile before I install a Blue-Ray drive bo at least I can use the empty slot to install that, however I understand that the Blue-Ray drive uses a SATA port like a hard drive, is this true?

I am getting a new Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 Chipset mobo on my new build and I understand that it has 6 SATA ports and I willuse 4 of the ports for my 2 pair of hard drives using Ghost 14 and SyncBack for backing up.

I used Raid a few years ago and when my hard drive crashed I had no bootable hard drive so it didn't function for me so I don't trust Raid setup.

 

[tecmo34]

You are correct a Blue-Ray drive uses a SATA port.

I thought about a RAID0 setup myself awhile back but what happened to you is why I decided against it. IMO if you are going to have a RAID0, you need to have another drive setup in RAID1 to mirror that data so you don't lose anything if the first RAID goes bad.