KeithL;179070 Wrote: > 8 x dvd drive > 4 x dvd drive
There's your main difference. The hard drive difference will be less of a limitation, the data's coming much slower off the CD than it is being written onto the hard drive. The data's being read at 5410 KB/s for the 4 X drive and could be written at about 30 MB/s for the 4200 RPM HDD, so the hard drive is not the limiting factor. The processor speed makes hardly any difference at all, ripping to AIFF doesn't require compression and wouldn't be very processor-intensive. My laptop is the same way - it's much slower at ripping than my desktop. It's also has a much harder time with damaged discs (this is with EAC that will slow the drive down when it encounters errors). -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32593 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
