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After eight years of use it's time to buy a new PC and upgrade to Windows 11. My Dell XPS 8930 has served me well overall and the optical drive they sold me with it ripped thousands of CDs securely and accurately (HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GU90N). I'm buying another Dell, but dreading the process of upgrading to Windows 11 and installing and tweaking all the apps, including optimizing CD Ripper for the best rips. I see there is a setup guide and a sticky thread on best and worst drives, so I will assume those resources are up to date and make use of them.
If anyone reading this has any thoughts, recommendations or warnings to share, please post here. I don't know how much choice I will have when I order my next PC with Dell and include an optical drive, in terms of brands and models. Unless you're building your own computer, I guess they just use what components and parts are standard for a given model. Anyway, I want to choose wisely, and I still prefer internal CD drives to external USB drives, but I guess the latter is also an option.
Thanks for still being here with CD ripper in an age where fewer and fewer people (including myself) are still buying and ripping CDs and most of us are streaming or downloading our music. I still like having a physical collection of discs to handle and look at, even though I almost never play them, choosing to play the ripped files in JRiver MC instead.
If anyone reading this has any thoughts, recommendations or warnings to share, please post here. I don't know how much choice I will have when I order my next PC with Dell and include an optical drive, in terms of brands and models. Unless you're building your own computer, I guess they just use what components and parts are standard for a given model. Anyway, I want to choose wisely, and I still prefer internal CD drives to external USB drives, but I guess the latter is also an option.
Thanks for still being here with CD ripper in an age where fewer and fewer people (including myself) are still buying and ripping CDs and most of us are streaming or downloading our music. I still like having a physical collection of discs to handle and look at, even though I almost never play them, choosing to play the ripped files in JRiver MC instead.
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