DVD Burner & CD-Rom or CD-RW

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Redfox, Feb 24, 2006.

  1. Redfox

    Redfox Private E-2

    Currently, I have a CD Rom and a CD-RW installed in a Dell 4500 running Win XP with SP 2 and all updates. I have a DVD dual layer Burner coming next week so one of the current drives has to go. I have been advised to keep the CD Rom so I can reinstall windows when necessary (but the DVD Drive will do that). I have also been advised to keep the CD-RW drive to write to CDs (but the DVD Drive will do that).

    In either case I plan to set up the DVD Drive as master and the other? drive as slave.

    Is there a good reason to keep one drive over the other? Recommendations please.

    I searched the forum for the answer to this but was unsuccessful.

    Thanks,
    Charred
     
  2. jamcgriff

    jamcgriff Sergeant

    If I were going to keep one of those two it would be the CD-RW, your dvd burner will function as a regular cd-rom. dvd,rom dvd burner and a cd burner, but some dual layer dvd burners do not write cd's as fast as a regular CD-RW. What brand dvd burner are you getting.
     
  3. Petaluma

    Petaluma First Sergeant

    Keep the cdrw so you can backup your music and pics from cdrw to dvd rw or vice versa--

    My2cents
     
  4. Redfox

    Redfox Private E-2

  5. Wyatt_Earp

    Wyatt_Earp MajorGeek

    Yeah, I'd say keep the CD-RW only because I can't think of any good reason to keep the CD-ROM. Anymore, plain CD-ROM drives are pretty worthless.

    Good choice on the burner. I bought the 8x version of that drive about 1 year ago. Has worked great ever since.
     
  6. Redfox

    Redfox Private E-2

    Thanks Wyatt_Earp, I appreciate the confirmation on the choice of burner.:cool:

    Charred
     
  7. hugh750

    hugh750 MajorGeek

    I agree with everyone, Go with the cdrw & dvdrw combo!
     

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