Any point having more than one optical drive?

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I've currently got a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM. I'm getting a DVD-RW. I never use both current drives at the same time and can't really think of any reason that I would, except if I wanted to burn two things at once or on the fly, neither of which I do.

Are there any other reasons you guys have for having say a DVD-ROM and a DVD-RW working together? The main reason I want to get rid of one is cause I'm upgrading my system and want to keep an IDE drive for backup / storage. Most new mobos I believe only come able to support two IDE drives max, optical or otherwise, so I'd need to restrict myself to one DVD-RW and one IDE HDD.

If necessary I could buy an IDE controller or SATA adaptor but I also want to keep things to a minimum in my case.
 
Keep it to a minimum if you don't need the resources.

I would get a SATA drive and use IDE. I was thinking of getting an IDE > SATA converter just for my ROM drive. Thus no IDE. Tidier case e.t.c.

Do it how you think you would like it.
 
Get yourself a SATA DVD-RW such as the Samsung one sold on OCUK for £28 and then use the single IDE port on most new motherboards for your hard drive.
 
I have TWO Pioneer DVR-111D DVD-RW drives, that way, I can copy discs on the fly, I can write a disc whilst installing something/playing something off the other, I can write two DVD's at once (usefull when i'm backing stuff up, takes 1/2 the time).

I wouldn't go back to one optical drive tbh.
 
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