Burn on multiple DVD burners at once?

[iain010100]

Hi,

Is it possible to burn the same project to several DVD burners at the
same time?

I've been looking into buying or building an external DVD/CD
duplicator, but now I'm wondering if it would be possible to do this
internally. Ideally I would have three internal matched DVD burners and
one hard drive installed to the IDE channels in my PC. Then I would
create a project using Nero 6 perhaps, and set the project to burn to
all units at once. Is this at all possible to do? Does anyone have
experience doing this? I know that in Nero you must select the target
burner, but is there some way to assign a goup of burners? Is there
burner software that will allow you to burn to several drives at once?

Thank you,
-- I

 

[BigJim]

yes but not on a computer, they sell duplicators that do this.

 

[hdrdtd]

Nero does allow you to burn to multiple dvd burners at the same time.

Been there, done that.

However...

Our intent at work was to equip a PC with dual DVD burners (Plextor 716's)
so that we could burn multiple copies of digital video's at the same time,
rather than burn one, reload, burn the next copy , etc...

PC in question is a homebuilt 2.8Ghz w/2gig ram, 36gig Raptor and 250gig WD,
etc.... Windows 2K, Nero 6

Using Nero 6, we could indeed burn two at once as Nero allows you to use
multiple recorders, but it took twice as long as burning one at a time.

So, we could burn two at once, saving us from having to stop and reload the
drive, but we didn't save any time.

I would stick with a DVD\CD Duplicator.

 

[DaveW]

You would have to use "industrial" hardware and software. Consumer
equipment does not cover your need.

 

[iain010100]

Thank you DaveW and the rest. I've decided to buy a pre-built 3x unit
rather than build one. Since the duplicator will be used for a
business, I want the comfort of a warrantee even though I'd be spending
~$100 more than if I built my own. And I can point my finger at the
manufacturer if things go wrong.

-- i