Building a DVD burner computer.

[fatboy95]

I am getting ready to build a computer to burn DVD's and was wondering if I should go with IDE or SCSI harddrives. I know that when I copy a dvd to my current 7200rpm IDE drive it will not play smoothly and I was wondering if this will effect the recording of it to the dvd-r? Thanks


fatboy!

[Big_Jit]

Not unless you captured the DVD. It should play smoothly on a dvd but be CAREFUL!!! You can't copy from DVD to DVD without special Software.

You need to research datarates for your hard-drive(s) and your dvd drive(s) to find out what you wanna do. I don't think it's gonna matter wether you use IDE or SCSI...

[PlaiBoi]

If i could afford it, i would use SCSI. SCSI is ALOT faster than IDE. Keep in mind that SCSI devices usually cost alot more than IDE ones.

[mikerios]

Fatboy -

Slow playing on the hardrive should have no effect on your burn, chances are you do not have dma enabled.

You could build it SCSI but that's a waste of money, I used to have an all SCSI rig with a dvd-ram drive, but it been replace with my all ata 133 rig with the Pioneer A03 dvd-r/-rw drive. The only modification I did to the drive was to convert it with a 1394 converter from caloptic.com, this because the A03 uses pio mode and has no burn proof. The 1394 conversion make it less cpu intensive on the burns and it allow me to rip dvds on my pioneer 116 dvd rom drive as it set to master.

[mikerios]

Plaiboy,

it used to be SCSI was alot faster than IDE, not anymore, especially for cost vs perfomace, there SCSI loses. SCSI does have it's advantages in some respect I'll give you that but advances on CD-R technology negated the coaster issue, and with ATA133 and soon serial ATA coming out, SCSI will be regulated to corperate server enviroments and the truly hardcore who will pay no matter what for SCSI.

[leebo]

My 2 cents:

Your playback problems may be due to other things besides your hard drive.

What CPU?
What OS?
Whats running in the background?

I had my A03 in a Athlon 1200mhz with 500 or so megs and it worked fine.
I just this week removed the drive and installed it in a firewire enclosure and can now use it on any of my 4 computers (inc. a laptop). It rocks!

[fatboy95]

Thanks for all the info... I figured that there would be difference on playback and recording. I just purchase a 80GB 7200rpm Maxtor from Staples, really good deal for only $82.00 plus a 100 Imation CD-R's.

I am running WindowsXP at the moment.... I want to try and go with Linux if possible.... but will stick with which ever one supports my video card for vivo, Elsa GeForce 2 GTS 32DDR.... My CPU is PIII 1Ghz.... 512MB mem.... Soundblaster Live Gamer..... and an Asus MB....

Thanks again for the input.....

fatboy!

[imel6]

It's probably not 'ide' that's causing your playback problems. I would think about all performance issues (cpu, memory, disk i/o etc..)
Keep in mind that most software dvd players rely on your CPU for decoding (very few video cards offer this type of decoding). Anyway, it should not affect your burned DVD.
I would go with IDE. SCSI is nice in that it has different registers which handle multiple requests for the bus better than ide (and lower access times), however, for this you pay a lot more money. Throughput is excellent (and better) on most fast ide drives. If you are going to do any kind of multiple editing consider lots of fast ide disc space.
My own config
1 Atlas 10K for my system drive and pagefile on a U160 controller (64bit, 66mhz bus)
1 standalone Western Digital Caviar 7200rpm 80GB drive on ultra 100 ide interface.
2 80GB IBM Deskstar 120gxps striped on Promise raid controller (32bit. 66mhz bus) - each drive is on separate bus
DVD burner and ROM on final motherboard controller
512mb of Crucial RAM (important for caching - the more the better)

Nice processor and mobo round this out. Good luck

[Anonymous65]

A ATA133 or even ATA100 is just as fast as a SCSI, so there is no advantage to using SCSI when the IDE drivers are getting so fast. Spend all the extra money on the CPU. Authoring and if you need to encode mpeg files takes forever even with a 1.5GHz CPU. Get at least a 2.2 gig CPU, or faster. DDR memory is also helpfull to assist the CPU in fast processing of huge amount of data.