Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? 330
To work around the problem, I've temporarily yanked an old Promise IDE card I had in an ancient K6-2 rig (timothy found parts of it in a dumpster even) and am using the old drive, but it's approaching a decade and was pretty heavily used. What with having lots of moving parts and a laser or three, I don't see it lasting another decade, and I'd like to have a drive usable with a bus that hasn't been deprecated for almost as long. I'd also like to avoid anything that can read/write Bluray, because the hardware implemented DRM is pretty heinous.
For those interested in the gory details of the hardware I ran cdparanoia -A on both drives: ide drive, sata drive. As you can see, the old drive is way faster, and it looks like the primary difference is that it also has a cache that works with non-linear access, but that behaves "correctly." If you own a drive you want to recommend and can analyze it with cdparanoia, I'm interested in seeing the output.
A note on software suggestions: it has to be FSF-definition Free Software, and GNU/Linux is the only operating system in my house. That basically leaves... cdparanoia. I'm a bit uptight when it comes to tagging (mostly because: once I've done this, will I ever have the stamina to re-tag? Nope), but I'm not trying to start a pirate CD factory and don't really care about getting 100% frame-accuarate rips, just error-free ones.
Re:HP DVD Drives (Score:5, Funny)
I work in the entertainment industry, and we have to rip about 100 albums a month at work for online promotions of various sorts.
So, that's what you tell the judges?! And they believe it?!
"Well, your honor, I'm not a pirate! I'm doing this for promotional purposes for these movies and bands. Torrents? Oh! That's how we get our promotional copies. It's really efficient!"
Re:Please, dont "encode" (Score:3, Funny)
Wrong approach (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Online storage?! (Score:4, Funny)
Keep your cds in a box somewhere as a catastrophic recovery, and have one duplicate of your ripped files offline somewhere.
So glad you told him this. Too bad that he had already thrown half of his CDs into the furnace before he heard your advice.
Re:Online storage?! (Score:5, Funny)
That's the problem with WORM media.
Re:HP DVD Drives (Score:5, Funny)
maybe you'd feel better if you tried windows 7.