Yes, USB1 is that slow. Add a cheap USB2 card. I speak from bitter experience.
I decided to rip all my CDs onto an external hard drive using my old computer prior to splashing out on a new PC and an SB2. Big mistake! Because both my CD/DVD drive and external hard drive were on the USB1 bus I decided it was safest to rip to a temp directory on my internal C drive and then, once the rip was finished, do a copy of the data onto the external hard drive (to avoid contention on the USB bus between the CD reader and the external hard drive). To rip a single CD was taking me about 20-25 minutes to do the rip and then about 15 minutes to copy to the external hard drive, i.e. about 40 minutes total. On my new PC it takes about 5 minutes for the whole operation. - Julian -- JulianL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JulianL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19027 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
