Burn to multiple burners

[fdhdfhdfhdfh]

Hi,

 

I created 3 ISOs with ImgBurn.

I have 3 DVD Burner in my computer (Intel Q9300 | 8GBRAM | 4 X 1TB HDD | -> Good Computer)

 

I need to burn 3 ISOS at the sametime.

1st ISO to 1st dvd burner

2nd ISO to 2nd dvd burner

3th ISO to 3th dvd burner

 

It's work, but IT'S EXTREMELY SLOW.

 

When I burn 2 things at the sametime it's fast, but 3 or more -> SLOW.

 

Do I need to change something in ImgBurn... or anywhere else ?

 

Thanks !

Edited December 3, 2009 by marcj11

[LIGHTNING UK!]

There shouldn't be an issue if each image is on a different hdd.

 

All drives should be SATA (or SAS). IDE wouldn't work very well due to the whole Master/Slave thing where 2 drives share the same cable/channel on the controller.

[fdhdfhdfhdfh]

Each ISOs are in the same HDD -> SATA2 Western Digital HDD

Edited December 3, 2009 by marcj11

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Random access would be killing it then.

[fdhdfhdfhdfh]

Random access would be killing it then.

 

Ok, so what I need to do ??

Change Transfer Length / Buffer size ??

Change Buffer Recovery Thresholds ??

Desactivate Random Access ??

With 1 ISO --> Speed is around 7X

With 2 ISO --> Speed is around 3X (each)

With 3 ISO --> Speed is around 1X (each)

 

thanks

[Cynthia]

Perhaps another hard disk?

[fdhdfhdfhdfh]

Perhaps another hard disk?

 

It's a new hard drive... and my computer already have 4 HDD + 3 DVD Burner, so no more SATA port available.

 

I'm sure we can change something in the buffer to optimize multiple burning ?

 

Thanks

[Cynthia]

Aha, you already have the ISO's on different hard disks. Sorry.

[fdhdfhdfhdfh]

Aha, you already have the ISO's on different hard disks. Sorry.

 

All my ISOs are in the same HDD.

I have, like 65 Computer Recovery disk (converted in ISO in my HDD).

Each Computer has like 2 or 3 Recovery.

If I need "1 computer" recovery, I need to burn 2-3 recovery at sametime.

So, now you understand why I need ONLY 1 Hard Drive.

 

I'm sure the problem isn't there also, read iso and transfert data into buffer should'nt take all HDD bandwith, no ??

I think imgburn is just not able to manage the software buffer of something like that...

 

I'm right or not ??

What should I do ?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You just can't read the same image from the same hdd 3 times simultaneously, period.

 

Unless you buffer the entire thing, there's always going to be a point in time where your hdd simply can't keep up as 3 different programs attempt to read from it.

 

It's not about hdd (or interface) bandwidth, it's about hdd physics.

[fdhdfhdfhdfh]

You just can't read the same image from the same hdd 3 times simultaneously, period.

 

Unless you buffer the entire thing, there's always going to be a point in time where your hdd simply can't keep up as 3 different programs attempt to read from it.

 

It's not about hdd (or interface) bandwidth, it's about hdd physics.

 

Hi it's 3 different ISOs on the same HDD to 3 different DVD burner.

So each ISO will go to his respective DVD burner.

 

Now, i'm sure it's the HDD the problem...

Can we set something like that in Imgburn :

I start the 1st ISO (buffering),then he start burning -> second ISO is buffering, then he start burning (the first continue to burn), the 3th start buffering, then he start burning and the 1st start buffering (so everytime ONLY one ISO will do the buffering).

 

THanks

 

PS: I saw this post and they said "Ones" support multiple burning... did you test it ?? : http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=2022

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If you start each one going and wait until the buffer is full before starting the next one, all you're doing is delaying the point where the hdd has to start streaming 3 lots of data - so you'll still get buffer issues. (i.e. it's a waste of time)

 

If you want to burn to multiple drives with ImgBurn then you need a faster hdd setup (i.e. RAID) or you need the image on multiple hdd's.

 

Hell, you could even get some more RAM and make a virtual hdd in memory - then copy the image to it and burn from there.

 

If you want/need to stick with the image on 1 hdd, use a program the can actually burn to multiple devices from within a single instance (as you know, ImgBurn can't do that).

 

It'll only read the image file once and then you won't have a problem.