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Any ideas why my audio extraction is piss poor with new SATA drive?

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Just smacked together this system and went to see how much faster I would be with audio ripping and encoding. Fire up Exact Audio Copy and my max audio extraction rate for CD -> .wav is about 2.3X. I tried about 4 other programs, one of them gives me full speed and the other three give me similarly crappy results. The only program that worked is a pay trial version.

Is there something you guys know about that might be the issue here? Or should I go back to ATAPI drives and leave the SATA alone for a while?
 
Some drives are just not good candidates for ripping. Granted, 2.3X is extremely slow but I would not write off the interface because one drive is slow at this task. The fastest ripper I've seen was the SCSI version of the Kenwood True-X 72X drive but the audio rips had glitches in them. The speed reached over 52X on outer tracks of audio discs. :Q
 
Its just how EAC is. EAC reads over multiple times and reads slowly for the best possible transfer. Bottleneck is the precarious (and for an audiophile, its warranted) software, not the drive.
 
Originally posted by: Gautama2
Its just how EAC is. EAC reads over multiple times and reads slowly for the best possible transfer. Bottleneck is the precarious (and for an audiophile, its warranted) software, not the drive.
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No, it's not just how EAC is. In secure mode I get upwards of 10x on my Samsung 182M. Some drives are just finicky when it comes to ripping, as Rubycon said.

Edit: Guess the place to start is CDFreaks

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=213331
 
Yah it's definitely not just EAC. I have been using EAC for years and I know exactly how it behaves. With my previous BenQ 16x ATAPI drive on my old system it ripped at up to 32X.
 
I'm planning on buying the same drive next week. From that thread, it sounds like th problem might be the drive reverting to PIO mode instead of DMA?
 
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