best brand of cd-drive for ripping

[jax.pacs]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

Hi, the drive mentioned here are mostly internal drives.
Any recommendation for a good external drive?
I use a notebook. After ready this forum, I wish to accurately rip my CDs collection.

Regards....Jax

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

Or in dbpoweramp

[econocrat]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

C2 should be on for a 230a, you need to enable cache invalidation in the program not the drive.

Thanks - I suppose that means Plextools. I don’t have but I saw a post that said they are available free online. Hope they are backwards compatible as the 230 must be 5yrs old.

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

C2 should be on for a 230a, you need to enable cache invalidation in the program not the drive.

[econocrat]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

Hi,

My personal experience, with around 300 rips. I'm currently using Plextor PX-230A, a Samsung SH-S162L, a Lite-On 20A1P. I've tried quickly a Benq DW-1625, a Benq DW800A and a LG GCE-8160B.

I currently have not been able to fault the PX-230A, it just works great and its fast.

My opinion of the SH-S162L is that it is superb on scratches, maybe even better than the PX-230A, but it will give the occasional random undetected error on perfect CDs. Burst speed slower than the PX-230A, EAC secure speed about the same. It does not support lead-out, but that does not matter much as the offset is only 6.

My opinion of the 20A1P is that it's pretty good on scratches, just a notch below the other twos. But, like the SH-S162L, it it will give the occasional random undetected error on perfect CDs. Burst speed is faster than the SH-S162L, EAC secure mode twice slower. It does not support lead-out, but that does not matter much as the offset is only 6.

My opinion of the LG GCE-8160B is that it's not very good on scratches, and may give undetected errors. It was probably as fast as the SH-S162L. Newer LG may be different.

My opinion of the two Benq is that they are not very good with scratches (comparatively) and slow.

My personal opinion is that the key to accurate ripping is diversity. If the CD is not in the AccurateRip database, I rip it again on a drive from a different manufacturer and compare the CRCs (i.e. my personal AccurateRip).

Jean

I have installed a new Plex 230 in my SATA PC. This said I am no expert on computing. I want to ‘losslessly’ rip my CD library. Am told that C2 and especially the cache on the 230 must be off in order to know whether my rips are faultless:: The question may be stupid as I can find nothing about it on the web, but how does one turn off the cache on the Plex 230?

[bhoar]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

No way to know other than to buy and test it out.

There isn't a useful compendium of which USB/firewire to IDE bridge chips behave adequately in terms of support for secure ripping and associated drive features (c2, cache clearing, etc.).

Working on it!

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=16917

-brendan

[vance43211]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

the drive that I used that had superior ripping for scratched cds was a Pioneer dvd ROM dvd-121r. If the face was black (gray) I'd get it back from my brother and put it in my computer.

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

When it comes to DAE performance (extracting audio), many reviews are just plain wrong, it is difficult to test a drives DAE performance.

[stealle]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

I think the Samsung SH-203B is just as capable of a drive or better. It has C2 error, small offset (+6), no cache, Accurate Stream, HTOA capable. This is known to be one of the best DVD drives available right now according to many on cdfreaks.com

Only problem may be for some... this is a SATA drive. Just my .02

This is a nice reference to look up these features for most of the drives available today: http://daefeatures.co.uk/search.php

[bhoar]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

The 240a is nothing like the 230a

Thanks, spoon. Looks like the 230a is the pinnacle for the moment, then.

-brendan

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

The 240a is nothing like the 230a

[bhoar]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

Has anyone tried the external USB version of the Plexwriter Premium (10 out of 10 according to CDRLabs.com)?

Has anyone tried the 240A (2007)? How does it compare to the 230A?

Following up a few months later...

I'm curious on the px-240a vs. the px-230a topic as well. The px-230a, though discontinued, is still available for sale (I just found a stash for sale at deep discount), but I suspect one day the stocks will be out.

From pictures (it's hard to tell) it looks like the PX-240a units are more compact...which might be problematic as I'm planning to use them in robots...the more compact units tend to refuse to eject the tray far enough for automated use.

-brendan

[bhoar]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

OMG... ok. but how do i find out. then..

No way to know other than to buy and test it out.

There isn't a useful compendium of which USB/firewire to IDE bridge chips behave adequately in terms of support for secure ripping and associated drive features (c2, cache clearing, etc.).

Also note that many stand-alone duplicators with a USB or firewire port only allow the computer access to *one* of the drives (e.g. for burning th emaster before a duplication run).

-brendan

[vance43211]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

you can alway take it out the box and put it in your computer

[KOF]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

I would not like to guess.

OMG... ok. but how do i find out. then..