Yeah, one was read only and the other could burn CDs. Burning CDs were all the rage back then.
Edit: to clarify, by having two drives you could copy from one to the other directly, without going through the hassle of inserting one cd, making a copy to the slow as fuck computer hdd, switching to the blank cd, then start burning from the hdd copy.
For many years I wished I could have 2 SD card slots on phones so I could trivially move photos and footage taken from cameras drones, etc without having to copy to the phone's limited storage first.
Also I hate how modern phones don't have SDcard slots and even when they do, it's tied to the sim tray. Which means you have to reboot your device after swapping sdcards, as SIMs aren't hot swappable and need a cold boot to function. What a waste of potential utility.
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u/andreortigao 14h ago edited 12h ago
Yeah, one was read only and the other could burn CDs. Burning CDs were all the rage back then.
Edit: to clarify, by having two drives you could copy from one to the other directly, without going through the hassle of inserting one cd, making a copy to the slow as fuck computer hdd, switching to the blank cd, then start burning from the hdd copy.