What kind of external drive do you use for ripping your cd's?

[motosapien]

Getting a new laptop today......

 

[madis64]

The one that I have in my drawer

 

[kevinkr]

I use a portable LG BD writer for ripping CDs, in fact I have never used it for anything else. I guess it is about 5 years old. Works fine and is fast.

 

[motosapien]

Thanks Kevin, just wanted a confirmation on what I been looking at,

 

[Pano]

Mostly Toshiba USB. But others work fine.

 

[StevenCrook]

A usb drive Pioneer BDR-XD05TS that does blu-ray, writes them too. Was cheap-ish at the time. But for only ripping CDs? You could use almost anything.

 

[Zoji6645]

I use a Plextor PX-891SAF which enables the use Plextools. With Plextools you can test DVD and/or CD that you have burned. Error maps and jitter can be measured. It's really a great optical recording tools set. This is a 5.25 full size drive so maybe not appropriate for your laptop, but it's really one of the best optical drives you can get. I suppose you could get an extranl case to house it?

 

[motosapien]

Back when laptops came with optical drives, I ripped and burned plenty. Now I figure to just get my collection into my laptop so I can stream out of it. With a 1 TB SSHD should hold plenty.

 

[kevinkr]

I use a 1 TB SSD drive configured as a NAS within Roon, running ROCK on a dedicated Intel NUC i5, this has proven more than adequate so far, and 4 years in I still have around 450GB available. I use RPI4B as endpoints to a USB or SPDIF DAC typically - I have a total of 5 zones, 3 of which are in regular use.

 

[sbelyo]

These were the best reported CD ripping drives. The test was run in 2022 and isn't run every year so this is the latest I could find. I use EAC and this supports AccuareRip. There's probably a bunch of arguments on what is best but I figure the more accurate the better. That being said I used a LG WH16NS60 because of its (cough cough) 4K Bluray abilities and was very very happy with it.

Amazon has a variant of number 2 on the list.

https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Internal-Rewriter-WH14NS40/dp/B007VPGL5U?th=1

Use this to house it, then connect it to your laptop with a good quality USB cable

https://www.amazon.com/OWC-Mercury-...lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A2W0TEJ3MK1XP5&th=1

Drive: HL-DT-ST - BD-RE BH14NS48 (116 users): Submissions: 10260 accurate, 23 inaccurate, 99.7763 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - BD-RE BH14NS40 (141 users): Submissions: 4323 accurate, 22 inaccurate, 99.4937 % accuracy
Drive: hp - DVDRW GUE1N (157 users): Submissions: 4437 accurate, 24 inaccurate, 99.4620 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-RAM UJ8B0AW (132 users): Submissions: 4438 accurate, 25 inaccurate, 99.4398 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - BD-CMB UJ160 (152 users): Submissions: 7973 accurate, 46 inaccurate, 99.4264 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-R UJ-85J (103 users): Submissions: 4903 accurate, 29 inaccurate, 99.4120 % accuracy
Drive: PIONEER - BD-RW BDR-S09 (226 users): Submissions: 25237 accurate, 159 inaccurate, 99.3739 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-R UJ-898 (195 users): Submissions: 5200 accurate, 34 inaccurate, 99.3504 % accuracy
Drive: PIONEER - BD-RW BDR-208M (201 users): Submissions: 8668 accurate, 60 inaccurate, 99.3126 % accuracy
Drive: Slimtype - DVD A DS8A4SH (116 users): Submissions: 5250 accurate, 37 inaccurate, 99.3002 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-RAM UJ8G6 (69 users): Submissions: 5173 accurate, 37 inaccurate, 99.2898 % accuracy
Drive: Slimtype - BD E DS6E2SH (75 users): Submissions: 6244 accurate, 46 inaccurate, 99.2687 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - DVD+-RW GT30N (51 users): Submissions: 20230 accurate, 152 inaccurate, 99.2542 % accuracy
Drive: ASUS - BC-12D2HT (315 users): Submissions: 9972 accurate, 75 inaccurate, 99.2535 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - DVDRAM GT51N (152 users): Submissions: 4381 accurate, 33 inaccurate, 99.2524 % accuracy
Drive: ATAPI - iHES208 2 (96 users): Submissions: 7456 accurate, 60 inaccurate, 99.2017 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-RAM UJ-812 (50 users): Submissions: 6388 accurate, 52 inaccurate, 99.1925 % accuracy
Drive: PIONEER - BD-RW BDR-207M (281 users): Submissions: 16499 accurate, 138 inaccurate, 99.1705 % accuracy
Drive: PIONEER - BD-RW BDR-XD04 (199 users): Submissions: 8338 accurate, 72 inaccurate, 99.1439 % accuracy
Drive: hp - BDDVDRW CH20L (110 users): Submissions: 6416 accurate, 56 inaccurate, 99.1347 % accuracy
Drive: PLDS - DVD-RW DH16ACSH (57 users): Submissions: 7634 accurate, 69 inaccurate, 99.1042 % accuracy
Drive: ATAPI - iHAS224 B (96 users): Submissions: 4398 accurate, 40 inaccurate, 99.0987 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-R UJ-868 (136 users): Submissions: 4034 accurate, 37 inaccurate, 99.0911 % accuracy
Drive: LITE-ON - CD-RW SOHR-5238S (83 users): Submissions: 11175 accurate, 104 inaccurate, 99.0779 % accuracy
Drive: OPTIARC - DVD RW AD-5680H (90 users): Submissions: 4469 accurate, 42 inaccurate, 99.0689 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - BD-RE BH16NS55 (431 users): Submissions: 11000 accurate, 107 inaccurate, 99.0366 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - CD-RW CW-8124 (47 users): Submissions: 6816 accurate, 68 inaccurate, 99.0122 % accuracy