just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

Hiya, I have just bought a DVD writer for my comp. I have at the moment a cd writer and a DVD drive installed. Seeing as how I dont play DVDs on my comp do you think that I should just take out the two drives and just have a combination?

What do people ordinarilly do?

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

I kept my CD writer and replaced my DVD drive with a DVD burner - mainly because the CD writer reads scratched CD's better than my DVD writer, but also it seems slightly more reliable at writing CD's too.

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

I'd take out the two old drives and just use the DVD writer...

Unless you're gonna do a lot of disc copying.

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

Ah, thats a point I forgot disc copying.........trying to think of the last time I actually did that now........hmm!!

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

Unless you need two writers, take out the old cd writer - then you will have one dvd and cd writer, and two drives which can read both dvd's and cd's.

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

Yeah, take out the CDRW & keep the DVD reader

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

How many hard drives do you have in the machine?

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

I have 2 .....a 40gb and an 80gb!

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

How about turning one of the internal hard drives into an external?
This sort of thing

Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
 

Or install a cheap raid card http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=48670 . I use 3 optical drives in my system as each has its own best use
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lite on cdr will copy everything in reason(back ups of course). will also read cd's that state not playable on pc or mac
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