CompuServe Messages

Um… sued… interesting choice of words in a CD duplication message! (hehe) This all depends on what you mean about high volume. If you want a garage operation to press your own CD's, then do this: 1 100Mb/s LAN Containing: 1 NT Advanced Server w/Quad Speed CD ROM with Cacheing controller. 1 NT WorkStation w/ one or several CDR drives. There you go! Since you would be running NT, you would be able to burn several CD's at once on the workstation. Just add more workstations for more capacity. And you can tell the other workstations to start copying from the server. You could then write a little application/batch file that would fire xcopy on the workstations that would xcopy the entire CD from the server to their local CDR's. If you had 6 CDR's per workstations, and say 10 Workstations; you could crank out a descent number of ROMS. Now, if you want professional capabilities, you going to want to go an entirely different route. There are "jukebox" CD duplicators, that you load with 100 blanks, and it burns them (but one at a time). Or you could outsouce it. Might be just a cost effective. Lets fantasize: One, dual P90 with 128 Mb of Ram, PCI SCSI-2 Cacheing with 16 Mb cache (if not more). RAID drive array to hold mirror of the CD. 20 DX2-66 16Mb NT workstations with PCI SCSI-2 booting off a 500mb IDE. Each has 6 CDR drives (ie. HP's new one) connected. You have two racks back to back. One with workstations, the other with CDR's. From the server you type something like "\\client001 xcopy f:\*.* d: /s" or you put it all in a batch file so it does the command for all drives. Now you burn 120 at a time. And, it's completely scaleable. If the traffic is too high on one server; find the max number of clients, add a server for each of those, map the new clients to the new server, add them to your batch file list. Wow, can't believe I thought of this. Maybe I ought to open a CD Dupping service! 😉