Internal vs. External ripping

[hardy]

Rip to the internal drive and then move it to the external. Or does it matter. I have always ripped to my internal hard drive, and then moved it to my external hard drive.

[classfour]

Depends on the interface - USB will rip slower than firewire.

[hardy]

As far as quality, it doesn't really matter right? I don't care about the speed.

[nickman00]

You can choose whichever is the better for you, internal/external/network storage etc. The encoding won't run with worse results. The difference and bottleneck will be only the writing speed between your DVD and USB.

[hardy]

The internal drive has SMART support, would that matter when ripping?

[themaster1]

if u like the noise of your external drive 7 hours straight i suppose it's ok.
Moreover, external drives are prones to i/o errors in my experience.

[hardy]

The drive speeds are the same. One rip usually takes 6 to 10 minutes. I'm just more concerned about the accuracy of the external drive.

[ricoman]

Why have wear-and-tear on the internal drive when you are just going to move the file anyway? I have several external drives that I use strictly for video and have never had a single problem ripping to them. Go directly to the external. The rips speed is the same, I don't see any advantage with the 2-step method.

[hardy]

Plus, I just realized my external has the 16MB cache, where as my internal is only 8MB.

[lordsmurf]

None of this matters -- just rip to your drive of choice.
Stop over-thinking it.