DVD-RW drive W/CD-RW Drive in same tower

[kjphilips]

I am buying a DVD-RW and adding it to my tower. In doing this I have done some research and I have been told that I can only have 1 burner and that 2 burners will cause conflicts. I have a very well built system that is fast all of it including the CD-RW (48x) and i am not realy ready to go back to the stone age and burn CDRdiscs @ 10x. Will this truley cause an issue If so I have an open PCI slot and could add another 2 IDE chanels. what would be the best solution if any.

Thanks
kjp

[IceFog]

I have both a DVD-RW and a CDRW in the same tower, one on top of the other, and have not had any problems. The only real thing I could think of would be heat, and as long as you have adequate cooling, and are not putting both drives under heavy operation at the same time, there should be no problem.

[stream]

You can have any combination of drives that you want, as long as you don't try to run them all at the same time if they're IDE. IDE can't handle that kind of data flow, no matter how fast your computer is.

-jesse

[SaSi]

I have also had both DVD-RW and CD-RW on the same machine, although the CD-RW is now "decomissioned", as it was a X24 and the SONY writes at X24 as well.

No problems at all (except that you must remember where you are going to record each time and put the disk on the proper drive ).

Only one suggestion.

Put the DVD-ROM and the DVD-RW on separate IDE channels. This helps disk to disk copy dramatically and if you have a fast PC it will allow you to do all sorts of things while recording. (I can still remember the days when I wouldn't dare move the mouse while recording at x2!!!)