IDE DVD/CD burner question

chickenboy · 04-03-2008, 10:35 AM

Hi, I have to get some IDE CD/DVD burners (thanks to NVIDIAs screwed up optical SATA drivers) and am wondering if their is any performance drop with 2 drives on one channel (only one IDE port on mobo). Is disc to disc burning going to be slowed down any? Should I just get one drive, image the disc I need to copy, then burn the image, or will disc to disc still be faster? Also, do IDE optical drives work slower than SATA? The ones I am getting are the exact same drives as my SATA, but with IDE connectors instead. Thanks!

dai · 04-03-2008, 11:35 AM

you will not notice much difference

04-03-2008, 10:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
chickenboy Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 25 OS: XP Pro	IDE DVD/CD burner question Hi, I have to get some IDE CD/DVD burners (thanks to NVIDIAs screwed up optical SATA drivers) and am wondering if their is any performance drop with 2 drives on one channel (only one IDE port on mobo). Is disc to disc burning going to be slowed down any? Should I just get one drive, image the disc I need to copy, then burn the image, or will disc to disc still be faster? Also, do IDE optical drives work slower than SATA? The ones I am getting are the exact same drives as my SATA, but with IDE connectors instead. Thanks!

04-03-2008, 11:35 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,609 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: IDE DVD/CD burner question you will not notice much difference __________________