DVD-R replicator (an alternative)

[JJ Coolbean]

Okay, rather than pay a ridiculous amount for a dedicated DVD-R replicator, and having limited drive bay space, I was wondering if I could daisy-chain a couple of Sony DRX-510UL external DVD burners together via firewire (Sorry Sony, I meant to say I.LINK) as a sort of jerry-rigged replicator and burn multiple DVD discs at once. Each burner has two firewire ports so I'd connect one to the system (or preceding drive in the chain) and the second port would connect to the next, or following, drive on the chain. Doing some research on this site and others, I believe that Record Now Max 4.5 supports burns to multiple drives, but I'm still not sure if this method qualifies.

Have any of you used the external firewire drive method to produce multiple copies of media? What would you recommend? Which software or drives (et cetra) would you suggest?

As always, thanks for all the help. Cheers.

[overloaded_ide]

Gee your only 200 miles away

Well I haven't done it yet, but my first thought was buy internal IDE drives and a Promise IDE controller card. Could get 6-7 burners going this way if you have a strong enough power supplie. 4 on the promise card, 2 on secondary IDE on system board, and maybe one as slave on primary IDE.

Firewire was suggested to me, but I have not had the time to look into it yet. Good point made was rather or not the systems power supplie would handle all those IDE drives, and firewire drives have thier own power supplies. I would think Firewire will work, but never tried it.

Here's a small thread we have going about duplicating and media.
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=179889

As I mention in that thread I think all my systems have 400watt or larger P/s and I like Large cases! So I have 4 bays I could use and room to mod in a few more if I wanted to. Don't know how much power supplie I would actually need, but I would have 7 burners and a hard drive running at the same time
Actually, I even have my old AT tower case with 6 burner bays
5 1/4 bays x 6, I said I like large cases didn't I

[JJ Coolbean]

Thanks for the thread direction, overloaded_ide.