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webgeeze · Rated PG

Hi

I'm looking for advise from the techies amongst you, please Wave

I am running a Rimage 2000i robotic CD duplicator and printer unit which requires a certain spec PC.

We have noticed recently, a problem where audio discs copied via the system incur an interferrence problem or crackle. We have investigated the drives concerned (plextor pro) and they seem to be fine.

The manufacturer reckons, we need a PC running two Hard Drives. They commented as follows;

"It doesnâ€™t need mirroring, it will just use the second hard disk for caching"

My question is this. If a second drive is added as a slave to the first, is the cache handled automatically by the host PC or is it something which needs configuring?

Out of interest, what is the technical effect/benefit in respect of cache, by running two drives in one PC?

thankyou in advance of any input you can provide.

justin
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CD Business Card & Shape Media specialist including the Vinyl Style CD-R range which we supply, custom print and duplicate.