I second the Plextor recommendation although you are paying through the nose for the Plextor name.
I want to point out that the term "Ripping" in marketing material is -much- different than EAC Secure mode. Secure mode is a very slow process because its ensuring that you are getting an exact copy. Ripping will be much faster (15-30x) on pretty much any newer DVD drive if you don't use Secure mode (personally, I want to be sure, so I use Secure more for everything). One of the benifits of buying a Plextor is that you can use Plextools which allows you to rip in a mode similar to EAC Secure mode at much faster speeds. One more point, are you converting to a codec when you rip or is it straight to WAV? Although system dependent, my system rips faster (PlexWriter 48/24/48U and AMD 2800+) than the FLAC encoder encodes... this means that it doesn't matter how much faster my CD-drive is... its still going to have to wait for the computer to finish compressing to FLAC... so I'm not saving any time by buying a faster CD-Rom. ss. -- street_samurai ------------------------------------------------------------------------ street_samurai's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=199 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18206 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
