Burning 2 DVD simultaneously... slow

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 22 16:50:37 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:42:09PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> I usually burn 1 DVD at a time, so I didn't noticed this before.  When
> burning 2 DVD-RW simultaneously (one SATA burner and one USB burner),
> the speed crawls and fluctuates.  I would've thought modern computer is
> more than capable of handling 2 DVDs at the same time.  Anyone
> experienced this?

USB (except USB3) is highly CPU intensive.  So I am not surprised at
all in fact.

USB is convinient, but also complete crap.

eSATA is good, firewire is good, USB3 is good.  USB1 and USB2 are crap.

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