- DVD Burner as master or slave (or just get rid of CDRW)?
- Posted by WhoMe? on November 30th, 2004
I just bought an NEC 3500a and I was just wondering if a DVD burner should
be used for anything other than burning DVD's? Would using it for games and
CD burning shorten it's life span and/or not perform as well as my current
CDRW (a Lite-on 48x)?
If I should keep the CDRW, which one should I make the master and which one
the slave?
Thanks.
- Posted by Tarkus on November 30th, 2004
On 11/30/2004 1:15:17 AM, GraB wrote:
Yeah, I use my Lite-On for everything, too. Burners (even double-layer)
are cheap enough and reliable enough these days that I wouldn't worry
about shortening its lifespan in that fashion.
--
"That movie has warped my fragile little mind."
- Posted by Jan B on November 30th, 2004
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:53:06 GMT, "WhoMe?" <l@home.com> wrote:
My understanding is that Master or Slave makes no difference.
What makes a difference is if you would copy between the units on the
same port (primary or secondary) the speed might be limited. You will
probably mostly feed data to the DVDR from the HDD, so assuming you
have the HDD on the primary port it is wise to put the DVDR on the
secondary.
/Jan
