Best DVD-Rom for ripping

[kenmo]

I need to replace my DVD-Rom drive for my PC. What is the consensus here for the best RVD-Rom drive for ripping DVD's ?

Thanks

[hotwings]

the forumsearch2000 by helpyourself, I use it myself, great results...


sorry feeling a little combative today... really I think that the consensus says that liteon makes the best rippers. Do a forum search, seriously...

[kenmo]

the forumsearch2000 by helpyourself, I use it myself, great results...


sorry feeling a little combative today... really I think that the consensus says that liteon makes the best rippers. Do a forum search, seriously...

Sorry...but I thought it was still disabled...

Cheers

[kenmo]

Just tried a forum search and it's still disabled

[vance43211]

any one that has 16x dvd reading capabillity

me, i use a samsung 16x 48x24x48 cdr dvd-rom combo drive ($70.00 )

so i can have the best of 3 worlds

fast ripping,

dvd burning (from my dvd recorder)

and fast cd burning

[metapy]

Try this:
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=dvdresults.php3

[Bob W]

Either the LiteOn163s or 166d 16x DVD drives will rip at speeds up to 11.5x for single layer DVD's. Do a search on pricewatch or pricegrabber and they usually sell for about $39 USD.

[thayne]

I would recommend the lite-on 16X drives

[vance43211]

my creative 16x dvd rom has rip up to 18-20x speed

that was before i install an aspi layer though

and i was using PowerDVD to unlock my drive

[dafoe]

Be careful. Many DVD ROMs are locked at 2x by the manufacturers.

After a year of ripping at below 2x (90-120 min a disc) I bought a Lite On based on the advice of some forum members. I now get speeds of 4x-10x - 10-30 min a disc

[jdizzy40]

Lite-On, $48.00 at Wally World (Black face). Nice unit. I've paid a lot more for Sony's and other brands and found out someone put a governer on therm (aka locked).

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I need to replace my DVD-Rom drive for my PC. What is the consensus here for the best RVD-Rom drive for ripping DVD's ?

Thanks

Dvd-Ram?

[thayne]

my creative 16x dvd rom has rip up to 18-20x speed

that was before i install an aspi layer though

and i was using PowerDVD to unlock my drive

There is no way you are ripping that fast.... It's not possible. 7200 RPM IDE drives can at best keep up with 10X, and that's like an IBM 180 GPX Deskstar. Most can't even keep up with an 8X rip.

[vance43211]

you don't have to believe me

check out my very first posts

i don't know why it did that

but it did that a lot before i added an aspi layer

[thayne]

It's not that I don't believe you, it's that it's not possible. Even with 15,000 RPM ultra 160 Scsi drives I don't think you could get 20X

I can barely get 10X with my IBM 180GPX and it is by far the fastest IDE drive you can get.

[Greenspock]

I would say the GSA-4040B drives. I actually work for an OEM and have had a number of DVD drives for testing. They read and write DVD-+R(W),RAM, and are Ultra Speed drives capable of writing 16x CD-RW media which is sweet BTW. I am having a prob with DVD-R media but I figure it might be something that I'm doing. Media? Well see. Check out my post if you want. But any way, its been a killer drive so far and the movies that its created so far work perfectly.

chow

[SLICK RICK]

My Pacific Digital DVD Rom gives me really good rip speeds.

SLICK RICK

[DeadLamb]

I can barely get 10X with my IBM 180GPX and it is by far the fastest IDE drive you can get.

I'm thinking it is also the DVD one might be ripping.. I have a Pioneer 106 slot load drive and it will range on the ripping speed alot from disk to disk.. Pushing stuff to a new 160gig 7200 WD so I'm sure on some level that helped but it hit x15 on Dawn of The Dead in DVD Dycypter (iso mode) and was hitting x6 or x10 on other stuff.. errrrr and of course, also hitting x3 on yet some other disks for some reason.

I mean nothing else was diferent sep the DVD's I was ripping.. and it only has hit x15 one time.. mostly it's x6 or x8 ripping.. Hum, now that I think about it, all the x10 was when the drive was really brand new and near empty. Will be interesting to see what happend a few months from now as I fill it up with junk..

anyways.. as for a DVD drive to rip with.. Keep those slot load one's in mind. I mean even if it is not the fastest of the fast ripper wise, just being able to shove disks into is sort of cool.. Alot quicker if the cpu is on the floor or whatever..

[txpharoah]

Pioneer and Sony DVD-ROMs are great.
Avoid LG, Panasonic, Ricoh and other off-brands.
Don't know much about other name-brands.

[vance43211]

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[Greenspock]

Avoid LG

Why is this?

[sapiendut]

Avoid LG

Why is this?

I have many problems with LG. It's not even a year yet and I'm already on my 4th drive. One thing it can not do properly is read multi-session DVD-R.

The problem mostly is that thing keeps dying on me.

For my other three PCs, I use Pioneer and not a single problem from any of them.

[hotwings]

Just tried a forum search and it's still disabled

my fault, I hadn't been keeping up with the board lately. but as you can see from the replies, you really can't go wrong with a good liteon.

[Bondiablo]

Toshiba SD-M1612 or SD-M1712 with the hacked firmware is the best. Lite-On is also one of the best.

http://forum.firmware-flash.com/dl_firmware.php?category=1&manufactor=31

[Greenspock]

I have many problems with LG. It's not even a year yet and I'm already on my 4th drive. One thing it can not do properly is read multi-session DVD-R.

Thanks for the reply but which model(s) / firmware? (if you still know)

[turk690]

I have been using a Pioneer SCSI DVD-ROM drive DV-S303 connected to an Initio 930 SCSI card since May, 1999 for ripping and many other things. It has never died and has consistently ripped >5x (it is a 6x/32x drive). In comparison a newer Sony DR500AU DVD-writer configured as sec. slave has never been able to rip better than 3-4x, if that, can't read certain scratched DVDs that the Pioneer can, and gives "region code mismatch" errors on occasion (opening ONLY DVDDecrypter).

[sapiendut]

Thanks for the reply but which model(s) / firmware? (if you still know)

yikes! can't remember anymore, sorry. As the Pioneer goes, I use the 119 and 116 with their original firmware (never updated).

[crazeplaya]

This topic comes up a LOT and the outcome is always the same. LiteOn DVD-ROMs are the best for ripping. End of story

[steveryan]

I have a Toshiba SD-M 1712 with hacked firmware, it's an excellent drive.

[vance43211]

This topic comes up a LOT and the outcome is always the same. LiteOn DVD-ROMs are the best for ripping. End of story

that's what a lot of people on this site use to rip

my creative and samsung dvd- rom are every bit as good as the lite-on

most 16x dvd rom are also