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Doctor Feelgood · Administrator

Hi webgeeze, and welcome!

I am unfamiliar with your program, but in general there should be a setting to tell it where to go for cache, temporary disk space, or whatever it might call it. Some programs will look to see what disk it thinks it should use, but it doesn't always pick the one you want (I have a TV tuner/capturer like that).

Having a second disk will help the performance of the system, and may eliminate the crackling by allowing the disks to keep up with the burning. With one disk the operating system, the burning application, temporary cache data, and whatever else may be running are all trying to access the one disk and they have to wait their turn. With two disks, preferably on separate drive channels, some of the tasks can be distributed and makes things run smoother. If you have two disks on one drive channel the benefits aren't as great since the controller is trying to access both drives on one cable, which is also a limiting factor.

Are these IDE drives? SATA generally has one drive per channel, so that eliminates that concern.