DVD copying speed increase needed

[davedaraveishere]

I have a PII 450, 384mb pc100 ram, abit bh6 mobo (udma 33), 8x DVD.

My friend has the same setup except XP2000+, 256mb PC100, gigabyte mobo (ata100), 16x DVD.

When I rip a dvd using smartripper to a 40gb hard drive on my pc, I can get a max of 1.7x DVD read/write.

I used my h/d on my friends comp (but with the same organisation of 2 hd, 1 dvd and 1 cdrw) and he aceived 10x DVD read/write.

I didn't think mine comp was that slow, but can someone explain where the difference is. Is it purely because my comp is slower, or is there a bottleneck somewhere where I can upgrade ie faster processor, pci ata 100 adapter etc. and if so, what increases could I expect?

Cheers

Dave

[Gazorgan]

Multiple people have the same problem. It seems to be a W2K and cheap DVD problem. I've tried different ASPI drives and can get it to rip at 1X instaed

[davedaraveishere]

both running win98 se so not win 2k problem, and 1.0x is slower than 1.7x

[[_chef_]]

Install aspi drivers 4.60.

[Gazorgan]

it rips at 2.1x in W2K....changing asapi drivers will revert it to 1x. Nero and Adaptec have the same result. It als rips at 2x in the native W2K/XP driver ( the non ASPI one ). Even in PIO mode it should rip faster.

4.60 drivers? Where might they be obtained at? I got 4.72 as current

[[_chef_]]

I have not tested 4.72 so far but read a few posts that 4.7x brought a few problems to some users...

[dc91gt]

it's having to decrypt at the the same time it copies the files from the DVD.

Thats why you p2-450 is so much slower then your buddies XP2000.

-d

[davedaraveishere]

So upgrading is what is needed yes?

[dc91gt]

So upgrading is what is needed yes?

Yes.

Your best bet is to pick up a new MB and processor... you can pick up an AMD XP2000 and MB for less then $160 bucks these days. It's cheaper then picking up a faster (1.4Ghz i think is the fastest) P3.. which will run you like $200 for the processor alone, if your motherboard supports it.

-d