I have a CD drive and a DVD drive. Both are burning ones. Is that CD drive basicly unneeded? Would it be a good idea to remove it, and only use that DVD drive? Do i gain anything doing so?

I will ask you a ? in return ! What if you wish to make a copy of a CD-ROM ? Perhaps a music CD that you just purchased ,by law you are legally allowed to make one copy for a back up in case the originial is destroyed or damaged ! I believe you are limiting your PC's capabilities by removing one of the drives. You can for a very affordable price by a DVD burner and replace the CD burner with the new DVD burner this way you can copy DVD's,this would be the best set up . Find one that covers most formats and you will still be able to make CD-ROM copies also ! This is the best setup IMHO ! Take Care Nick

The DVD burner can handle ALL the burning duties so you really only need the one drive. It's up to you whether to keep the CD burner or not.

You can make copies with a single burner drive. An image is first made on a hard drive and then the copy is written. But not much is really gained by removing the second drive. TWIMC NTVDM = NT, Win2K and WinXP Virtual DOS Manager http://kb.iu.edu/data/acxn.html

Keep the second drive! Saves a LOT of time duplicating CDs/DVDs. C2D performance from Socket 939: Opty 185 @ 3.2GHz 4GB CL2 DDR400 2x 8800GTS in SLI X-Fi Titanium Pro PCI-E Blu-Ray A8N32-SLI Deluxe Vista 64 24" Samsung

Another use for the CD burner is to keep a disk in there always for Nero InCD or what I use, Roxio Drag to disk. Both those programs are packet writers. Very handy for instant backup of your personal files. The purpose in leaving it in there is because ejecting a formatted disk requires the program to close the session. That takes a minute or so. You might not use the packet writer if you had to eject disks constantly. I run THREE optical drives in my full tower. Also running TWO SATA II hard drives plus an external USB. Backup, backup, backup.