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Faster ripping.
Read any forum and there is always a lot of love for Plextor drives, not owning one I can only guess it is because they work! To me any drive that rips accurately, works and ripping discs inbetween 4 - 15 mins, I could live with. Ripping a large number of CDs is a job I only want to do once and correct album art, tagging and an accurate rip (and back-up!) Is worth the time.
For convenience I was using a laptop and its internal drive to rip, nothing special a Celeron dual core x24 drive. Not knowing any different, and getting accurate rips on the first batch of CDs, I was happy until 2000 frame re-rip - copy protection! Bought an external TSST drive - rips a bit quicker, prevents damaging internal drive and rips said copy protected disc. All good until more fails on copy protection.
However good a drive is on most discs, it is no good if it doesn't work! Still haven't bought a Plextor, but been using my old PC drives via a USB (2) adaptor. Results having tried 4 drives - sadly can't get Yamaha to work (shame, its supposed to be very good).
Original HP drive, bit slow but good.
Asus from 2003, noisy, works on most discs and quick - high x40s.
Lite-On (has LightScribe) from 2007. The only disc I have found that this will not rip is a PDO Island CD that has completely bronzed - I can't read this on any drive that I own. This drive works, and works fast!
Four months down the line and the TSST drive has failed.
I ripped over 50 CDs on the Lite-On in the last couple of days and the worst that has happened is 5 secure rips in total.
I only started using these old PC drives to rip the (mostly copy protected) discs that failed on the newer drives, but was shocked how much quicker they are - now taking 2-3 minutes per disc and early Beatles in around 11/2 mins. The fact every disc now works first time and with the quicker rip speeds, the time saving quickly adds up: completing 2-3 discs in the time it was previously taking to rip 1.
As I said previously, my laptop is a Celeron dual core with USB 2 and another couple of cores would definitely be quicker again with additional encoding / ripping capabilities.
Is an old Plextor better still? I don't know, but if you are ripping hundred / thousands of CDs, the time saving of a fast drive that works (on all protected discs) is enormous.
Oggy.
For convenience I was using a laptop and its internal drive to rip, nothing special a Celeron dual core x24 drive. Not knowing any different, and getting accurate rips on the first batch of CDs, I was happy until 2000 frame re-rip - copy protection! Bought an external TSST drive - rips a bit quicker, prevents damaging internal drive and rips said copy protected disc. All good until more fails on copy protection.
However good a drive is on most discs, it is no good if it doesn't work! Still haven't bought a Plextor, but been using my old PC drives via a USB (2) adaptor. Results having tried 4 drives - sadly can't get Yamaha to work (shame, its supposed to be very good).
Original HP drive, bit slow but good.
Asus from 2003, noisy, works on most discs and quick - high x40s.
Lite-On (has LightScribe) from 2007. The only disc I have found that this will not rip is a PDO Island CD that has completely bronzed - I can't read this on any drive that I own. This drive works, and works fast!
Four months down the line and the TSST drive has failed.
I ripped over 50 CDs on the Lite-On in the last couple of days and the worst that has happened is 5 secure rips in total.
I only started using these old PC drives to rip the (mostly copy protected) discs that failed on the newer drives, but was shocked how much quicker they are - now taking 2-3 minutes per disc and early Beatles in around 11/2 mins. The fact every disc now works first time and with the quicker rip speeds, the time saving quickly adds up: completing 2-3 discs in the time it was previously taking to rip 1.
As I said previously, my laptop is a Celeron dual core with USB 2 and another couple of cores would definitely be quicker again with additional encoding / ripping capabilities.
Is an old Plextor better still? I don't know, but if you are ripping hundred / thousands of CDs, the time saving of a fast drive that works (on all protected discs) is enormous.
Oggy.
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