How Many CDs Can You Burn at Once?

kfs27 asks: "In an attempt to help a professor of mine record and duplicate his lectures. I have been asked to put together a CD duplicating box. Commercial products seem to be very expensive and I figured a PC with some SCSI160 Cards (HW or SW Raid maybe), SCSI Burners and a 15K RPM drive (size not an issue) could do the job for cheaper. But the question is, how many CDs can you burn at once of 30 minutes, mono audio. 10 at a time would be excellent I think. More of course better. Cost is not a huge issue, as long as it's less than Commercial Duplicators, it's more of an experiment, but must be stable and easy to operate (I'd be willing to script up a frontend)."

Comments

I know it's anti-'geek', but...

[Jonny 290]

You're not going to save money by doing it yourself. Let me rephrase that.

You will spend less money by having them professionally duped, and you won't have a fucking beast of a computer left sitting there.

"No problem," you say. "I can just dupe CD's for other people." Nope. You're not going to turn a profit for quite a while, and the other houses are sure to have lower prices than you.

Even though you might get your prices lower, as a musician, i'd much rather go with a pro house with DEDICATED equipment than some hack mucking about with a bunch of consumer-level burners and SCSI cards duct-taped into his HP minitower.

(i know, hyperbole, but you get the drift.)