using multiple drives

[woody565]

Hi all

 

i have been using imgburn for some time now with great success, i now want to use it in a computer that has 2 drives (may add more soon) is it possible using imgburn to burn to more than 1 drive at the same? if so how do i do it? and will it reduce my burn success rate?

 

Thanks for any help

 

Woody

[spinningwheel]

Hi Woody and welcome to the forum.

 

ImgBurn burns to one drive at a time at present. Maybe the Boss will someday decide to do otherwise, but that's up to him.

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

Hi all

 

i have been using imgburn for some time now with great success, i now want to use it in a computer that has 2 drives (may add more soon) is it possible using imgburn to burn to more than 1 drive at the same? if so how do i do it? and will it reduce my burn success rate?

 

Thanks for any help

 

Woody

 

Burning to multiple drives at the same time can be done but you pay a price for doing so. Just open multiple copies of ImgBurn and turn off the "Lock drive" option. Just remember that when burning to multiple drives, the source data for both destination drives still has to travel across the same data path, effectively creating a bottleneck which will slow down the data available to your burners. For example, if you can burn at 12x to a single drive, you'll find that you'll only get 4x or 5x (if you're lucky) to 2 drives as the data is alternately being sent across the bus in different directions - and the data bus itself can only handle a limited amount of traffic and can only go so fast. Adding more drives will make it proportionately slower again. In this case, the more you ask of your PC, the less you'll get from it.

[LOCOENG]

I've always known how it works, or doesn't work so well, but that is probably the best explanation I've seen Shamus.

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

I've always known how it works, or doesn't work so well, but that is probably the best explanation I've seen Shamus.

 

I just hope I'm right.

[LOCOENG]

Perfectly logical explanation if you ask me...course you could always be wrong. Which would make me wrong too...

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

course you could always be wrong.

 

LOL! It wouldn't be the first time.

 

Which would make me wrong too...

 

Which would give us something in common.

[chewy]

15:10:32 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started!

I 15:10:32 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 15:10:32 Total Physical Memory: 523,500 KB - Available: 286,140 KB

I 15:10:32 Initialising SPTI...

I 15:10:32 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 15:10:32 Found 1 DVD±RW and 1 DVD±RW/RAM!

I 15:12:10 Operation Started!

I 15:12:10 Source File: H:\NEWal.ISO

I 15:12:10 Source File Sectors: 2,230,096 (MODE1/2048)

I 15:12:10 Source File Size: 4,567,236,608 bytes

I 15:12:10 Source File Volume Identifier: NEW

I 15:12:10 Source File Application Identifier: NERO___BURNING_ROM

I 15:12:10 Source File Implementation Identifier: AHEAD Nero

I 15:12:10 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, Joliet, UDF (1.02)

I 15:12:10 Destination Device: [1:0:0] BENQ DVD DD DW1650 BCIC (F:) (ATA)

I 15:12:10 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MCC 03RG20) (Speeds: 4x, 8x, 12x, 16x)

I 15:12:10 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496

I 15:12:10 Write Mode: DVD

I 15:12:10 Write Type: DAO

I 15:12:10 Write Speed: 16x

I 15:12:10 Link Size: Auto

I 15:12:10 Test Mode: No

I 15:12:10 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 15:12:10 Filling Buffer... (20 MB)

I 15:12:11 Writing LeadIn...

I 15:12:39 Writing Image... (LBA: 0 - 2230095)

I 15:18:31 Synchronising Cache...

I 15:18:58 Image MD5: 34e57b92ffc87d25a4c36457ded728fb

I 15:18:58 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:06:47

I 15:18:58 Average Write Rate: 12,671 KB/s (9.1x) - Maximum Write Rate: 21,784 KB/s (15.7x)

I 15:29:07 Close Request Acknowledged

I 15:29:07 Closing Down...

I 15:29:08 Shutting down SPTI...

I 15:29:08 ImgBurn closed!

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; ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 - Log

; Thursday, 23 August 2007, 15:29:04

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I 15:11:08 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started!

I 15:11:08 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 15:11:08 Total Physical Memory: 523,500 KB - Available: 288,700 KB

I 15:11:08 Initialising SPTI...

I 15:11:08 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 15:11:08 Found 1 DVD±RW and 1 DVD±RW/RAM!

I 15:12:09 Operation Started!

I 15:12:09 Source File: D:\kdup.iso

I 15:12:09 Source File Sectors: 2,193,648 (MODE1/2048)

I 15:12:09 Source File Size: 4,492,591,104 bytes

I 15:12:09 Source File Volume Identifier: KdUp

I 15:12:09 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.3.2.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER!

I 15:12:09 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn

I 15:12:09 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)

I 15:12:09 Destination Device: [0:0:0] HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B A106 (E:) (ATA)

I 15:12:09 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MCC 03RG20) (Speeds: 4x, 8x, 16x)

I 15:12:09 Destination Media Sectors: 2,297,888

I 15:12:09 Write Mode: DVD

I 15:12:09 Write Type: DAO

I 15:12:09 Write Speed: 16x

I 15:12:09 Link Size: Auto

I 15:12:09 Test Mode: No

I 15:12:09 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 15:12:09 Filling Buffer... (20 MB)

I 15:12:10 Writing LeadIn...

I 15:12:45 Writing Image... (LBA: 0 - 2193647)

I 15:17:14 Synchronising Cache...

I 15:17:23 Image MD5: 1f986ef7cc26883b4f3485be6ae90222

I 15:17:23 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:14

I 15:17:23 Average Write Rate: 16,309 KB/s (11.8x) - Maximum Write Rate: 22,265 KB/s (16.1x)

I 15:28:57 Close Request Acknowledged

I 15:28:57 Closing Down...

I 15:29:04 Shutting down SPTI...

I 15:29:04 ImgBurn closed!

 

durn benq drive slowed down for the new mid, old workhorse LG just zoomed on thru

[LOCOENG]

That is pretty impressive chewy...how are your HDD's set up? Must be a beast of a machine, a lean beast at that.

[chewy]

old tired single core on a real hot day(100 in the shade) ambient was 92F

 

2 seperate sata drives(sources)

 

funny part was both disks had low pif totals and burned fine at higher speeds

[LOCOENG]

old tired single core on a real hot day(100 in the shade) ambient was 92F

 

2 seperate sata drives(sources)

 

funny part was both disks had low pif totals and burned fine at higher speeds

 

 

I've been seeing alot of those days here lately...

 

The sata config would seem to be the difference.

[chewy]

even pata should be able to sustain 22MB/s at 16x as long as "source paths" are not shared

 

just wish the durn imgburn windows would tile vertically, behave badly in that respect

[blutach]

I keep saying that notwithstanding their lack of statistics, the LGs are mighty fine drives.

 

Regards

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

I 15:18:58 Average Write Rate: 12,671 KB/s (9.1x) - Maximum Write Rate: 21,784 KB/s (15.7x)

 

I 15:17:23 Average Write Rate: 16,309 KB/s (11.8x) - Maximum Write Rate: 22,265 KB/s (16.1x)

 

Chewy, I'll agree that this is impressive. However, my original response still stands. Logic dictates that if a user has to ask this question in the first place, they are unlikely to be using a PC with multiple SATA/RAID drives and horsepower to spare. My response assumes an "average" user with a moderate PC with no SATA and little more than a dual IDE channel rather than what you, me or others can achieve with a high-end system.

[chewy]

Horsepower(ram and cpu) don't seem to be limiting factors, shared cables/controllers were/are.

 

 

Still don't understand why matched dvd burners couldn't burn from a single source efficiently, why do the source files have to be read twice? AFAIK enabling dual burners with nero is still limited by this.

 

Would a large ram drive overcome this?