Which drive should be changed?

[lois]

I have a cd-rom drive and a cd-rw drive. I want to replace one of these with a dvd burner which would also burn cds. I don't need one of the previously mentioned drives and was wondering which one do people usually do away with.

The present drives came installed on my Dell,. The cd-rom is Samsung 48x and the burner is Lite-on 24x.

Also the cd-rom is in the top drive and the cd burner is right below. Is there any need to switch slots when adding the dvd drive?

lois

[eboyjones]

The only problem I see is the software for the Lite-on could conflict with the new dvd burning software. You might post which type of software that comes with the dvd.

[confus-ed]

Personally I'd have two burners & 'bin' the ROM ... but I use my burners a lot & have a full tower case with enough room for 6 ! So I never made that decision ..

The only reason why not that way I can think of is if neither the CDR or intended DVDRW don't get anywhere near to 48x read speed, which is 'good' with games ... then again you've got all that CAV vs CLV 'rating' nonesence, which makes it tricky to decide.

Burning software is only problematical if you use one for your cdr & another for your DVD, I use nero which does both, so no problems ;)

[bcyee]

I'd dump the Samsung drive and keep the burner. If you have Nero it supports multiple copies being done at the same time on two different burners, of course this would be only CD-R/RW's in your case. The only reason to keep the Samsung is if it reads and accesses faster the the Lite-on and you know someone who needs a burner.

No need to switch slots unless the tray from one seems to be getting in your way. :)