Mine were almost all done on IBM or Lenovo laptops, although the drives are typically made by other companies. The bulk of mine -- around 75% I would guess -- were ripped with EAC. You need to test each drive with EAC so it can learn the offset (or whatever it's called) of the drive, but after that it was fine for me.
It is definitely possible to wear out a CD or DVD drive prematurely by ripping a lot, and the "flimsy" nature of laptop optical drives that you mentioned could come into play here. I have heard of laptop optical drives getting worn out faster than desktop drives. EAC in secure mode is probably extra tough on the drives because it is reading everything at least twice. One of the advantages of dBpoweramp is that it can be set to read only once as long as the result matches AccurateRip. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73864 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
