Restrictions on ripping from USB drive?

[Funkoid]

I'm down to my last SATA IDE drive and am wondering if I could double my efforts using an external USB drive instead.

I recall many years ago there were limitations, possibly around error correction with using a USB drive? Is this still the case? Have I made it up?

[dave148]

Is there a trick to allow these tools to see some of the external storage devices that Windows can see? For example, if I plug in my phone to the Windows 10 computer via USB, I can get it to show up in the Windows Explorer file manager, but it doesn't show up in the PerfectTUNES Add Folder dialog.

[schizoid]

(Forgive me if the Mac vs. PC thing has been covered already; I didn't see anything)

So I have a paid copy of 14.4, and I'm going to upgrade to 15 -- thanks for the great pricing Spoon! It's appreciated! -- but I'm wondering which is the best platform.

My choices: ...

[Gremo68]

I am planning to use Asset UPnP on a new Windows Home Server. I want to stream from the Home Server via USB-DAC to the amplifer.
Can I use Asset UPnP (Server Edition) for this? Or is there an other software necessary.

At the moment I use Squeezebox Server on vortexbox with an old...

[mckw99]

Are there any problems with connecting 4 or more USB CD drives to a PC and using batch ripper?

If this is fine to do are there any recommendations on PC or drive spec to get the best out of this setup?

Will batch ripper work with a mix of internal CD drives and USB drives?...

[thegreatnorth]

My Problem:
I was building myself a new gaming system and didn't want to include my old IDE Plextor PX-716A because I don't need use it that often anymore, but I still wanted to be able to use dbpoweramp with the drive to rip all new audio cd's that I buy from now on.

My Solution:...