A 2nd CD burner - able to burn 2 copies of same CD at once, with iTunes?

hi all,
I'm burning a lot of audio CDs and CD-RWs (music I've bought, and organised myself, for DJing).
The organising and burning process can eat up a day quite easily, so I'm looking for ways to speed up the process.
If I install a second CD burner in my 2009 8-core Mac Pro, will I be able to burn two copies of the same CD in iTunes simultaneously?
I've never had two CD burners in or attached to a Mac i've used, so Im not sure if iTunes will recognise the second burner and allow me to make several copies at once (I make two copies of each CD, so that I can mix between the two).
Burning CD-RWs (which I use for recent songs/tracks, while I get to know them and decide thoroughly where abouts they belong in my CD wallet), can take up to 12mins per CD.
When you're burning up to 20 CD-RWs in a day, you can understand how it can start to chew through time.
Please speak up if you can give me any advice : )
cheers,
sam

according to this site ( http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080502063732163 ) it can be done.
Can anyone confirm this?
If this is the case, are there any internal CD burners that are recommended over others?
Or should I go for an external burner, and leave my second drive free for installing another HD in, at a later point?

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