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  1. Just bought a new Dell Dimension 4600 with P4 2.66. I have a Liteon 411s and the Dell CD-ROM drive that came with it. I was thinking of swapping the CD-ROM for a DVD-ROM, but then thought why not add another 411s since the price has come down. Would there be any benefit to having 2 burners instead of a burner and a DVD-ROM? Or would the computer be inefficient to the point where two burners wouldn't be worth it?
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  2. Your rip speed would be slower and you'd be putting all that "mileage" on a more expensive machine than a plain old DVD-DOM. Readers are dirt cheap. Besides, prices are STILL dropping on writers, so why would you want to buy another right now?
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    The diff is that most DVD burners dont read as fast as a DVD-rom's. So if u are doing ripping, a DVD-rom will in most cases be a little (some cases a lot) faster to read the contents. As far as having 2 or more dvd burners in the same PC, I never found that a prob. I used to run a Pioneer A05 and LG 4040 internal, an external Plex 708 usb, and LG DVD-rom USB and there were no prob's. I have an Intel P4 3.2c/1gb mem with hyperthreading enabled. I was able to use all three burners at the same time, and MBM-5 shows that both logical CPU's wasnt even strained, both running at less then 10%. When ripping tho the CPU usage went up on both logical units to 90% plus and no prob's with all 4 DVD devices being use to read/rip at the same time. So 2 dvd burners shldn't be a prob.
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  4. I think a dvd rom or cdrw or cdrw/dvd rom combo drive is a better deal, the only way you need 2 is if you want to burn to both at once which i wouldnt recommend (dell psus cant keep up) there are some problems associated with it, at the end of the day it depends on the no of dvds you are producing, i think you cant burn two sepearate things at once. The only reason is if you dont wont to wear out the dvd laser on one liteon drive, but dvd burners will be cdrw prices by the time that happens
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  5. My thinking was that a DVD-ROM from Newegg is $32 and I can buy another 411s for $70 after rebate. This price difference is small unless I can get a cheaper DVD-ROM.
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    elmotheteapot wrote:
    the only way you need 2 is if you want to burn to both at once which i wouldnt recommend (dell psus cant keep up) there are some problems associated with it
    Dell pc's don't use industry standard connectors on their motherboards on their pc's. Check this site:
    http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/upgrade3_01_01.asp

    If you insist on having 2 DVD BURNERS I would suggest you put in a bigger power supply. You will have to order it from DELL. If you don't purchase it from DELL. Then you risk frying your motherboard. Because DELL does not use industry standard connectors on their motherboards. Good Luck!
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