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Old February 12th 05, 03:45 PM
Cyrius7
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Default Why two optical drives?

I notice that most Dells offer a dual optical drive option. Aside from on
the fly disc duplication, what am I missing by only having say a DVD-RW?
Thanks.


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Old February 12th 05, 04:13 PM
Dave
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:45:09 -0500, "Cyrius7"
wrote:

I notice that most Dells offer a dual optical drive option. Aside from on
the fly disc duplication, what am I missing by only having say a DVD-RW?
Thanks.


Most DVD-ROM drive will rip faster than the burner. If that matters
to you.

Some people also prefer to save wear and tear on the buner with a
second drive. With the cost of drives dropping, that's less of a
concern, IMO.

Dave
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Old February 12th 05, 04:15 PM
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"Cyrius7" wrote in message
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I notice that most Dells offer a dual optical drive option. Aside from on
the fly disc duplication, what am I missing by only having say a DVD-RW?
Thanks.


Thats about it, aside from having a faster CDROM drive. I presume the DVD-RW
also burns CD's? What about CDRW's?

-NuTs


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Old February 12th 05, 08:07 PM
William P.N. Smith
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"Cyrius7" wrote:
I notice that most Dells offer a dual optical drive option. Aside from on
the fly disc duplication, what am I missing by only having say a DVD-RW?


Some of the Does-It-All drives are _really_ slow with (say) CD-RW
disks, IME.

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Old February 12th 05, 08:10 PM
Ted Zieglar
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DVD-ROM drives are read-only. You must mean DVD+/- R/W.

In normal use, a DVD drive does not "wear out".

Ted Zieglar

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:45:09 -0500, "Cyrius7"
wrote:

I notice that most Dells offer a dual optical drive option. Aside from on
the fly disc duplication, what am I missing by only having say a DVD-RW?
Thanks.


Most DVD-ROM drive will rip faster than the burner. If that matters
to you.

Some people also prefer to save wear and tear on the buner with a
second drive. With the cost of drives dropping, that's less of a
concern, IMO.

Dave


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Old February 15th 05, 03:43 AM
Dave
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No, I meant DVD-ROM.

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:10:53 -0500, "Ted Zieglar"
wrote:

DVD-ROM drives are read-only. You must mean DVD+/- R/W.

In normal use, a DVD drive does not "wear out".

Ted Zieglar

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:45:09 -0500, "Cyrius7"
wrote:

I notice that most Dells offer a dual optical drive option. Aside from on
the fly disc duplication, what am I missing by only having say a DVD-RW?
Thanks.


Most DVD-ROM drive will rip faster than the burner. If that matters
to you.

Some people also prefer to save wear and tear on the buner with a
second drive. With the cost of drives dropping, that's less of a
concern, IMO.

Dave


 




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