OT: Burning to multiple DVD drives

Chanimal wrote on 9/24/2006, 9:54 PM

I have 5 DVD burning drives (three are double layer (Plextor, Sony and Toshiba)). I would like to setup at least two or more within my pc to speed up DVD duplication. I am willing to get matching DVD burners (my Sony 16x DVD dual was picked up during Labor day for $39 w/Rebates).

What software supports burning multiple drives at once? Has anyone tried it? What are the configurations? (I have all my drives on separate IDE or SATA controllers and expect to put each of the DVD burners on their own non-shared cable).

I saw GEAR had a pro version for $99 that is multi-threaded and will burn to mutliple DVD burners at the same time--even if they are at different speeds. I hadn't heard of them prior to seeking multiple DVD burning software.

What do most DVD duplicator machines use?

I have Nero and Roxio that came with my burners. I saw in a release that Roxio supports multiple DVD burners, but it was not verified within the product specs at their website.

Anyone have suggestions as to which software I should use?

Comments

TeeJay wrote on 9/24/2006, 11:01 PM

I recently built a duplicator using a Wytron 399 controller. The controller sits in the centre bay of a tower with 10 Pioneer DVD Burners. It is capable of duplicating 9 discs at a time and is VERY easy to use.

I put a hard drive in as well so i can store my masters on it and burn dupes without having to copy each time. It's a standalone tower that does not require PC connection.
I recently did a job for a client and ran off 1000 dupes for him with 100% success rate!

kimgr wrote on 9/24/2006, 11:18 PM

I use Nero 6.3 with 3 burners, works like a charm.
I don't know if 3 is the limit with the standard version of Nero, but you can get a special 7 burner version that's not to expensive:
http://www.nero.com/eng/Nero_max._7_Rekorder_InfoPage.html

Kim.

DavidMcKnight wrote on 9/25/2006, 4:49 AM

I use Nero w/ 2 NEC burners, have had no problems whatsoever. For however many discs you want, you specify that number divided by the number of burners you have, then choose the option "use multiple drives". For example, if you want 10 and have 2 burners, you tell it 5 and to use multiple drives. While burning it prompts you to feed in new blank discs as needed.

<edit> The standard version of Nero can write to 4 recorders at once, to go higher you need the 7 drive or 32 drive versions mentioned above.