tankman1989
Active Member
- Reaction score
- 5
I don't know about anyone else here but I've always been disappointed with the speed at which DVD drives read. Almost all burners read at 16x but they burn at 24X just the opposite of HDD's! That is a little nuts IMO.
Well, I've been using some older 20X burners (16x read) to rip my movie collection and I'm lucky to average 5x over the entire disk. To rip the same 8GB DVD to the same drive the older 20x takes 24minutes while the 24x does it in 10! That's 40% of the time it takes the older drive and I can definitely say that the old drive isn't worn out.
So, IDK what is making this huge difference because it's the same in all my systems. The only thing new is the new drives I'm running which are very inexpensive and just feel solid (for an optical, sometimes they are light and rattle). The drive is the ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS - OEM and it's only $20! I know you can get some for a few bucks less but I can say that this is proven.
If anyone else does any DVD ripping of encoded DVD's can you tell me if you get better speeds? I can get a lot faster speeds if I don't have to decode the DVD as I rip. I'm doing 4 drives at a time and speeds never drop and cpu usage is low.
EDIT: I just ripped some DVD's that come with Linux magazine (not encrypted or dual layer) and I get avg of 11.1x.
Anyone else have any good performing optical drives?
Well, I've been using some older 20X burners (16x read) to rip my movie collection and I'm lucky to average 5x over the entire disk. To rip the same 8GB DVD to the same drive the older 20x takes 24minutes while the 24x does it in 10! That's 40% of the time it takes the older drive and I can definitely say that the old drive isn't worn out.
So, IDK what is making this huge difference because it's the same in all my systems. The only thing new is the new drives I'm running which are very inexpensive and just feel solid (for an optical, sometimes they are light and rattle). The drive is the ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS - OEM and it's only $20! I know you can get some for a few bucks less but I can say that this is proven.
If anyone else does any DVD ripping of encoded DVD's can you tell me if you get better speeds? I can get a lot faster speeds if I don't have to decode the DVD as I rip. I'm doing 4 drives at a time and speeds never drop and cpu usage is low.
EDIT: I just ripped some DVD's that come with Linux magazine (not encrypted or dual layer) and I get avg of 11.1x.
Anyone else have any good performing optical drives?
Last edited:
