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  1. I've recently added a Pioneer 105 to my old reliable G4 Yikes. I also upgraded my old Spressa 10/4/32 Firewire to an external CRX300 for ripping. While this has sped things up considerably, I think the bottleneck is now in the decoding.

    1) How do you measure ripping speed? The DVD-ROM is 16x, but according to my (flawed) calculations, I'm nowhere close.

    2) What are you folks with faster machines averaging, speed-wise? Is there a Mac tool for testing?

    If business continues to pick up, I may just rip both drives out of the Yikes, give it to my son and get one of those G4 Dual 125s (two drive bays!)...

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    well i got the one you want to get.

    I told apple to pull the super drive out of it cause the dvd read speed sucks!

    SO now im running a phillips combo drive 16x dvd read speed and Toshiba dvd burner with read speed of 16x.

    I can pull a dvd to my HD in about ohhh 20 min or so.

    How long is it taking you?

    Per the actual encoding / shrinking you will notice a HUGE difference between your current 400 and the dual g4 1.25.

    Movie only copy is under 15 min using DVD2ONE
    Disk copy is under 25 min using DVD2ONE.

    Just to give you some ideas of my speeds
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    I have a 450 with a 12x internal DVD Drive. It takes me about 18-20min to do a movie copy in DVD2OneX and about 1hr15min to do a disk copy. I can't wait to get a G5.
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    The sad thing about G5 is only one optical bay.

    I wonder why they did away with that? Probably to cram those G5 processors in there.

    Oh well, im just spoiled with 2 optical drives
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  5. Originally Posted by galactica
    The sad thing about G5 is only one optical bay.

    I wonder why they did away with that? Probably to cram those G5 processors in there.

    Oh well, im just spoiled with 2 optical drives
    I don't think I want to pay for the honor of being a beta-tester. "Bleeding edge", as it 'twere.

    The two drive bays are nice. Are they on seperate controllers (I think your model has three)?

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  6. Originally Posted by galactica
    well i got the one you want to get.

    I told apple to pull the super drive out of it cause the dvd read speed sucks!

    I can pull a dvd to my HD in about ohhh 20 min or so. How long is it taking you?

    Per the actual encoding / shrinking you will notice a HUGE difference between your current 400 and the dual g4 1.25.

    Movie only copy is under 15 min using DVD2ONE
    Disk copy is under 25 min using DVD2ONE.

    Just to give you some ideas of my speeds
    16x CRX300 Firewire does DVDBackup in 20-45 minutes. However, the main HD that I use for this is also on Firewire, which probably doesn't help - you can see them passing the buck, back and forth. I'm trying to clean the internal enough to make it the landing zone/

    DVD2ONEX is 30-180 minutes. This is where I'm getting thrashed, processor-wise. And woe be unto me if I use the computer at the same time (that's what made the 180 minute one possible).

    Toast is 14 minutes, tops. I've used Ritek G04 ($1.59) and, knock on wood), had no coasters in the first 20 at 4x.

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    well that sound about right for your computer.
    your making up for lost time with your burn speed. No real way to make it faster other than getting a faster mhz computer.

    sorry
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