Hard drive read speed for building a duplicator?
#1
Posted 22 June 2012 - 03:17 PM
#2
Posted 22 June 2012 - 04:03 PM
The best thing you could do is buy a proper 'hardware' duplicator unit.
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#3
Posted 23 June 2012 - 07:03 AM
Duplicators normally have a bog standard hdd in them. The problem you've got is that you're going about it in the wrong way... you should be using software that reads once and writes to many - ImgBurn obviously doesn't do that.
The best thing you could do is buy a proper 'hardware' duplicator unit.
What I'm wondering is where the bottleneck I'm having is coming from. I understand I'm going about it backwards, but I'm also going about it for 150.00 versus 500 for a good duplicator. I've split the 5 burners between 3 hard drives and yet two still seem to lose buffer. Is this some kind of sata limit? Where is the limit at.
#4
Posted 23 June 2012 - 11:27 AM
How have you managed to get 8 SATA ports in the first place?
The most you normally get on a single chipset is 6.
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#5
Posted 23 June 2012 - 02:08 PM
I would guess there's just too much I/O going on for the controllers to handle.
How have you managed to get 8 SATA ports in the first place?
The most you normally get on a single chipset is 6.
Eh just my motherboard. It has an additional 2 ports that are on their own for mobo based raid in addition to the 6 regular ports. Yeah, I'm just surprised its being limited so quickly, I mean theoretically there should be more than enough headroom for this.
#6
Posted 23 June 2012 - 08:45 PM
If you want to test burning to all 5 burners from memory, use discovery mode and burn (with 'Test Mode' enabled so as to not waste anything) to 5 DVD-R discs.
At least then you'll see if the machine can handle the 5 burners at once without any sort of ssd/hdd bottleneck.
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