Simple Newbie Question Re DVD Burner vs Regular CD/DVD Rom Drive

[da_xanadu]

I just ordered a Sony DRU510A OEM for the system I'm putting together and am wondering if I still need to get a regular CD/DVD Rom drive for such purposes of installing operating systems and other applications? I guess my question is: does the Sony also play the role of a regular cdrom or dvdrom drive for reading data?

Thanks in advance for any input!

[SkyDog]

That drive will read data just fine, so you'll be able to install stuff, watch movies, or whatever. If you'll be doing a lot of CD-to-CD or DVD-to-DVD copies, you may want to consider a second drive or else you'll be doing a lot of disc swapping: read image from source disc, swap, then write to blank media. Other than that, you'll probably find the single drive to be perfectly adequate.

[da_xanadu]

Thanks for the explanation--No confusion now!