duel pioneer 105

[BReeve]

i am about to buy my second drive but i want to find out something first:
when i try to copy a dvd to my hard drive it takes me about 20-25 minutes to copy for a full 4.5gb.

If i bought another drive and used it to copy to the other pioneer drive-will i be limited to the speed i can copy (will 1 dvd take 20-25 minutes to copy?

cheers peeps

[fatbloke]

BReeve I've just got round this same problem , when ripping the movie to the drive the pioneer 105 is locked at 2 speed. I've just purchased a liteon dvd rom drive and now it rips the movie at up to 8 x, therefore a lot quicker, it's also better due to copying on the fly. Hope thios helps

[BReeve]

its a good idea-but i need to have two pioneer writers.is there any way to unlock the drive-i read somewhere about asapi but i have no idea what that is?

[dreadogg]

My lite-on drive has ripped at 16x on many occasions. like 20-40 bucks at newegg!

[musher70]

two dvd burners?whats the point?

[sluguy3]

Sounds like the pirate ship has left the harbor


Anyway, are you getting a second writer in case one goes out so you have one readily available so you have no down time??


I bought a Samsung DVD-rom to compliment my 104. I lost the use of my TDK 24x cd writer for now till I get my Raid config going. have 2 HD and 2 dvd drives. So until I get my raid going I can only burn cds at 8 or 12x I forget.

[petec]

I have two Pioneers A-05 drives mounted in two separate machines. One machine I consider my Video Multimedia machine (as all I do is video and audio on it). The other machine is used for other stuff and I wanted to be able to back up files to a nice format. I do more of my own capturing from Satellite (specials etc) and BUY my DVD's as in this country (USA) they are relatively inexpensive (10-20 USD) and NOT worth the effort in time to ripping/copying them. 90% of the DVD's that I have seen are usually exceeding 5 gigs and sit between 5-9 gigs. I did make a copy of the Bourne Identity which I purchased for myself for my son who wanted his own copy to play on his own DVD play in his bedroom. What is starting to irritate me are the pre-movie advertisements/previews on many DVDs and the fact that that this country seems to spend more of our tax money supporting and defending the MPAA than defending itself against what they should be looking at.

[BReeve]

i have a lot of 'family holiday' dvds and need to distribute them between the 'family'.

I just wanted to know if the read speed will keep up with the write speed of the other because i want to copy 2 at a time (i have a lot of family)

any ideas how i can i up the read speed (what is aspi and will it help?)

cheers peeps

[JazzyDaz]

well what can i say? the dvd read speed on the a05/105 is 2x. Cant see how you can make it go faster! Maybe a hacked firmware can but as standard its 2x max!

Get a 16x dvdrom

as for 2 dvdr drives business must be booming on those bootlegs!! lol

[BReeve]

the family cant get enough of the home movies.

looks like i'll have to buy another dvd rom as well then....

cheers everyone for your help.