[CS-FSLUG] Disc copier or computer and program needed

[Tim Young]

Hi David,
When do you need to have your new device by?

My brother, Philip, built a device of his own for the DC outreach.  
He found that with an i7 processor, he could burn 9 simultaneous 
copies.  The problem with most burners / software is that they are 
designed to do one copy at a time.  So the software takes the audio 
files, processes them to turn them into an iso image, then burns 
them.  There is a fair bit of processing time taken with the prep.  
But an i7 processor has the capability to handle 9 completely 
separate streams at the same time.

So he had a large tower with an i7 processor.  He used XP Pro because 
he was used to it.  The CD-burning program he used was 
CDBurnerXP-Pro.  He was looking to build a device that he could be 
burning multiple simultaneous languages with, and that is what he 
came up with.  The down side is that, it was not as streamlined when 
you had one language that you wanted nine copies of.

Philip had a number of Sony burners that he did not like, and he was 
slowly replacing.  I do not know what brand he was moving towards.

The DC outreach is this 4th of July, and the new director of that 
project switched to having multiple burning stations instead of "one 
station to rule them all."  So there may be a chance that Philip's 
station may be available after the 4th of July if they ended up not 
using it.    Not sure about that, but it might be worth corresponding 
with my parents on that one.

     - Tim Young

On 5/12/2011 2:34 AM, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
> About 6 or 7 years ago we saw the need to move from distributing gospel
> audio cassettes and VHS gospel movies to distributing discs. We work
> primarily with people who are illiterate or nearly so, and often do not
> speak well any language in which the gospel is commonly preached.
>
> Accordingly we investigated and obtained a "duplicating tower" capable of
> duplicating 7 discs CD or DVD. Twice we have had to replace the 8
> "burners", because the mechanism that moves the tray to recieve the blank
> disc. or eject the recorded one was worn out. Now we are at that point
> again, *but*
>
> The burners needed are the outdated ide type. So we are faced with the
> prospect of changeing the entire system.  I have been making some inquiry:
> We will need one that will produce eight discs at a time, and one that has
> a large hard drive, perhaps 2T. I haven't found one available with those
> specs.
>
> Does  anyone know if the new SATA "controller cards" are capable of a hard
> disc that size? If so I could put one together from purchased parts. Or:
> If I can find an appropriate case, and a Program to run multiple burners
> simultaneously and efficiently, maybe a better answer would be to build a
> computer with 8 DC/DVD burners, and a large hard drive or two.
>
> Does anyone know of the availablilty of such a computer case? And such a
> "burner" program? Also, Can you tell which "burners" are the more durable,
> or are there any that really stand out?
>
> Dave McMullen
>
>
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