Practical Use For 2 Super Drives?

My apologies if this sounds silly but is there any real practical use for the 2 Super Drives I have? I think I may have been a bit naive thinking that I would somehow be able to burn multiple CDs at once from iTunes or burn multiple DVDs at once from iMovie or iDVD. Can someone provide an example of how I would be able to use the two drives or what the intent was of offering two drives?

Thanks Forrest. Sorry for not replying sooner but I've been away for the holidays. By "running two instances of the app and making a duplicate" are you referring to, for instance, creating a copy of iDVD or iMovie and renaming it to something else? Is that even possible? Perhaps it would be best if I described a scenario and ask if it is possible to do this.
I create an iMovie project and share to iDVD. Suppose I want burn a large number of DVDs. Is there a way to do this using both trays from iDVD? I do a lot of this, usually converting a lot of home movies for people and putting them on DVD. When they want multiple copies, it's a matter of waiting for one DVD to finish burning before loading another because I can't see a way to burn the same project via the two different superdrives that came with the Mac Pro.

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Max OS X version 10.4.11
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