Good DVD drive that rips AUDIO real good (and DVD)

[smp]

Hi all. I've recently gotten into EAC to rip my CD's. That is one demanding application, I think it is part of the reason that my Panasonic (matsushita) CDROM crapped out on me, it couldn't take the heat. I'm looking at the Pioneer 16x slot load, but I want a drive that will rip audio well too, not just DVD's. For those who don't know, EAC is Exact Audio Copier, and from what I've read, the best audio extraction program out there. It will reread a bad or unreadable sector on any CD up to 86 times, that is a lot of work for the drive to do, I don't think my drive took a good liking to that kind of abuse, so now it's busted. I guess it's okay, I mean, I'm poor and I'm trying to save up for school, but I have really been wanting this drive for a long time, only that I don't know if it is good for ripping audio, if there is a better drive out there, let me know. I understand that the Toshiba's are really good too, let me know, thanks.

 

[bacillus]

copied from cdspeed2000

The Lite-On LTD163, a 16x DVD-ROM drive can read audio at FULL 20-48x speed!.
This is fast enough for making audio copies on the fly with a 16x, 20x and even a 24x recorder.
The DVD performance is also excellent, 11.92x on average which is as fast as the AOpen DVD-1640.

can't vouch for their findings as I've never owned one!

 

[Pauli]

The Toshiba DVD drives are very good - quiet, fast, reliable, and compatible. However, they are not very fast at DAE. the 16x version rips audio at only about 8x-9x. It rips DVDs at only 2x. The 12x version seems to be faster at DVD ripping but not much better at DAE. So, if ripping is an important function of your optical drive, DO NOT get Toshiba. Pioneer and Lite-on are more popular choices here, but they are decidedly NOT quiet.

 

[smp]

Any other drives I should consider? I'm not so much concerned about ripping time. Or should I be, because people talk about burning speed too, but I rip my CD's to the hard drive, and then burn them. Digital audio extraction takes a long time, and I like to get it done properly. I think that if you do a normal CD to CD copy, it goes to analog and then back to digital onto the other CD.. or am I mistaken? I guess it would make more sense for it to be done digitally, but if you don't have ASPI or whatever (which I do).. I don't know.

 

[Raspewtin]

lite-on is the one you want