Hi,

I am building a new pc, and want mulitple cd writers in it. The motherboard i am using is the Abit AT7, and it has :-

4 channel UDMA133 RAID (supporting upto 8 devices)
2 channel UDMA133 (supporting upto 4 devices)

I already have a scsi pci card for attaching scsi cd writers, but i am wondering what to go for.

I have six bays in my case, 1 will be taken up by an ide dvd reader, another by the new pioneer dvd writer.

The hard drive will be a udma133 so that will be 3 devices used on ide.

I want TWO cd writers at first, but i may want to upgrade to using all my bays so i could want 4.

Recommendations of cd writers please, and also how i would set them up on my pc.

Thanks

maybe the CDRW forum 4 this?

Yamaha 2100s (16/10/40) or Mirai (sanyo) BP4 16/10/40 both SCSI, thats about your choice if you can still find em, Sanyo do a 24 speed SCSI but it isnt available in uk. Fastest plextor SCSI is 12x . If you go ide you would have difficulty getting more than 2 writers to work, but there again you could use faster writers. Also depends which program you intend to use, for discjuggler all burners need to be exactly same, with nero or feurio you can use any combination even mixed SCSI/IDE.

Thanks MrMP, i shall probably go scsi then. I have used Disk Juggler, but i am open to changing to another program if necessary. Is it possible to copy two different cds at once, if i had 2scsi and 2ide ? And used two different programs ?

You can use 2 instances of nero or clone cd at once, but you might get occasional crash, if your system is pretty reliable though you should be ok.

BTW i saw mirai 24x scsi at a comp fair today 145 quid

i use ricoh cdrwers they are brilliant

Plextors rule i recon especially the 24 speed one. and it does Safedisc v2 :)
well thats my opinion anyhows lol

If you do go IDE PLEXTOR are definatly the best but i have heard alot of good things about Liteon's apperently they are just rebadged Plextor's but cheaper.

lite-on aren't rebadged plextors !!!
they're alrite tho, can do SD2.5 and 2.6

TEAC makes some great high quality affordable CD-RW drives.

Their new 40X CD-W540E has received high praise in official reviews at cdrlabs, cdrinfo and others.

They are built to last.

yes m8, should have nom probs copying 2 different cds at once, I use a Liteon setup 2 24x writers and 2 dvd roms

i have an abit raid mobo and have 2 24x plex burners and 2 liteon dvdrom drives and 1 scsi plextor cdrom , can burn on the fly to both burners at once using clone cd or nero , i have these drives as i clone lots of pc games , whilst burning to both burners i can listen to mp3 and surf the net and download etc all at the same time and other small tasks .