can i burn two discs at a time?

[toshka]

ok as header implies can i burn two discs of differing information at the same time?

do i need special equipment...

and please note different information...:icon_scra

[drtoker]

looks possible to me, this guy just uses multiple instances of clonecd, and says he's burning up to 3 different items at once:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=39451

[maxrebo]

Yea, in theory there should be no problem. I don't think there is any software designed specifically for that, but running two instances of any burning software that lets you would work.

[LeetAdama]

some apps will let you burn several concurrent discs, of the same content. I believe prassi used to.

There's no reason you shouldn't be able to burn several instances of your burning app, but bear in mind that burning two dvds at 16x each will pretty much max out ordinary hard drives, so you'll want to either burn from different drives, or get faster drives, or run striped raid.

[parkbenchi]

my nero cant even burn 1 disc at a time. with 2gb ram the buffer bombs out all the time......

[maxrebo]

Actually, a modern hard drive might be able to handle two 16x DVDs simultaneously. 16x is a little under 20MBps, so a recent drive like a Seagate 7200.10 could probably handle 2.

[maxrebo]

my nero cant even burn 1 disc at a time. with 2gb ram the buffer bombs out all the time......

Which buffer? The dvd drive buffer or hard disk buffer. If its the drive buffer, you're probably burning too fast for the blanks or for your DVD drive. Most of the time, burning at the full speed of the media is a bad idea.

[toshka]

thank you very much this is sooooo.... usefulll.
been looking for the answer for ages guess this covers it
Thankyou..
can go buy another drive now

[jatinkompelli]

How about running nero & some other software simultaneously.

[GrAfFiT]

Grab a hard disk benchmark tool, HDTach for example, and measure the random access read speed of your hard disk. There's no point burning two DVDs at once if both burners spend half of the time pausing due to buffer underruns..