One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

[erpch]

Hello,
Does batch ripper work with one PC (quadcore, 2 Go RAM and 6 CD Player SATA) ?

Thanks
Eric

[Spoon]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Should be ok, I would not go above 6 CD drives on a single system, rather use a 2nd system if you need more CD drives.

[erpch]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Thank you for your answer. I will try with 3 drives before to add 3 more.

Could you estimate the speed of the CD conversion to FLAC (include accurate RIP) for these configuration : 6 drives, intel quadcore 6600 2,4 Ghz, 2 Go RAM ?

The CD are in good conditions.

Eric

[Spoon]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Around 20x speed for each drive, dependant on drive. So around x120 speed for 6 drives, or one disc every 30 seconds.

You might want to bump the ram to 4GB

[erpch]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Thanks, I have to buy 5 CD Drives, can you recommend a model ?

[Spoon]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Wait 24 hours and take a look at the new CD Drive Accuracy List 2011 which is going to be posted.

[erpch]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Did you post the list ? I don't know how to find it...

[Spoon]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=23074

[erpch]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Thank you very much !!!

[soongsc]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Around 20x speed for each drive, dependant on drive. So around x120 speed for 6 drives, or one disc every 30 seconds.

You might want to bump the ram to 4GB

I have a 8 core machine with 4GB ram, never was able to see throughput like that. Normally each disk takes at least 10 minutes. Is this due to up sampling? rarely been able to see real rip speeds above 13x even though the drives are much faster.

[Spoon]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

>Normally each disk takes at least 10 minutes. Is this due to up sampling?

You should not be changing the frequency or bitrate, noting to be gained...

It is drive specific, I have tested drives which will reliably rip at x40 when it reaches the edge of the disc (starts out at about x16)

[Z0001]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

I too am interested in setting up an optical drive tower with the idea of speeding up the ripping process. If I was to set up 4 drives would dbpoweeramp rip simultaneously or sequentially? Would this strategy be quicker than a single drive? I have an i3 530 and 4GB RAM and will be ripping to a QNAP TS 419P+ NAS across a gb network.

Cheers

[Spoon]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Batch Ripper would rip simultaneously. It would be 4x faster than a single drive (if using 4 drives).

[Z0001]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

Tremendous! Thanks Spoon.

[CaryB]

Re: One PC (quadcore) with 6 CD player, OK for batch ripper ?

For those of you toying with this idea, I have an AMD quad core cpu, 8gigs of ram, and 6 ESATA CD/DVD drives, all in one tower. I use various brands of drives, so if one hangs, I can try a different one. (and I was cheap, picked up whichever was cheapest at the time.)

I get around 100 to 120 accumulated ripping times on average. Works great. I stack up about 20 or 30 cds, then just start feeding them in. Once it gets going, if the CD's have no errors, I am constantly changing discs. (I do have it set to let me review MetaData if it finds no album covers, etc. So that slows it down a bit on some albums.)

I am also ripping all these to a Server running Unraid. Gigabyte ethernet. No bottlenecks at all. (If I had only 100mb network, I would rip them to the hardrive, then transfer when finished.) My biggest batch yet was about 60 CD's. Took around a half hour or so if I remember correctly.