External CD Drive for Ripping
Posted by: Mike-B on 09 April 2014
I'm ripping (dBpoweramp) using a laptop with a slot drive & with 500+ CD's to work thru & having experienced some discs getting stuck in the past, I am a little nervous about its durability.
Can you folks give me some recommendations for a good external drive
Keep in mind it will not be used much once the ripping job is done, I am not looking for anything fancy, just accurate & fast.
Well I finally got done ripping my own discs. What a mind numbing 4 days that was !!!!
Not sure about the final disc count, but after I selected out about 100 of the doubled up & less worthy recordings it was just short of 400.
A buddy came round with his smallish (~100~) collection of some of the reputed best recordings of classical & baroque. I need to get those selected out & loaded sometime before next weekend
Amazingly the HDD's (2x 2TB in RAID) are only showing 15% full.
Top marks for dBpoweramp, that really works & it is a dream to learn to use
I found that both the external drive & the internal drive did not always give an accurate rip of some tracks, most times an overwrite on the individual tracks works. But on a bad or damaged discs it might not work, but I found if it was overwritten on the other drive it more than not did give an accurate rip. So that's a tip if you are having this kind of trouble, an alternative drive to try an overwrite is helpful.
The Supra RJ45 cables are scheduled to deliver tomorrow, the new furniture to locate the NAS & extra wiring is due on Wednesday
Now all I need is the NDX 