DVD burning - reliable program for multiple recorder jobs

[Savant]

Hi folks,

I just added a thrid burner to my system and was dismayed to find that PrassiPrimoDVD doesn't recognise the new drive. I upgraded to the latest PX mastering engine with no luck, so I guess they haven't added this drive to the list yet.

So I'm wondering what oher programs support multiple drive recording doing simultaneous burns of the same image?

I have Nero6, but I'm not sure if it is that reliable and if it will actually record to multiple drives simultaneously. (I know it can record to many drives at once, but I think it does this by running multiple instances instead of just one instance and multiple drives - what concerns me is that with Nero if I run a multiple drive job one drive may get 'ahead' of another, which means that the recording is not simultaneous - but concurrent - and that means that the computer will have to dig up the same data for each burner, instead of digging up the data once and serving it to all drives simultaneously)

So I'm curious what people use that they get the best reliablity from. I need to run off a couple hundred DVDs and so I don't want to run into problems. (I haven't had any problems with Prassi)

I'm using all Pioneer drives - A03, A05, and A07. Strictly retail models.

Anyone had any experience with other replicating software?

Regards,

Savant

[pete2828]

i thought nero 6 could burn up to 4 burners simotanously. I didn't try it but I think you can.

[Savant]

Yes, Nero can do multiple recorder burns, and I'm in no way knocking Nero (or else I wouldn't own the Nero 6 ultra) but I find that it doesn't do SIMULTANEOUS burns on multiple recorders.

Here's an example from memory...

I was trying out a two recorder burn, and it worked fine, BUT as I watched it, one record was burning slightly faster than the other. Now this isn't a problem in of itself, but it means that the hard drive has to serve TWO streams of data, one to each drive. In Prassi, it serves ONE stream of data to ALL drives, regarless of whether the drive can run faster or not.

So in Nero, if it serves multiple data streams, that means that it has to dig up that much more data off the hard disk, and I would think that could increase the potential for bandwidth issues if you use more than a couple drives at once, or if there are other issues.

However, this might have been an issue that was fixed in an update, I haven't done any Nero DVD burns in months. PrassiDVD has always been solid and I wish it supposed this new recorder.

Regards,

Savant