Best CD drive for ripping audio?

[Shawn T. Rutledge]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:42:44PM -0700, KevinO wrote:
> > What's the best drive for this?
> > 
> > I use cdparanoia and I think the fastest I've ever seen was 1.4x, once,
> > momentarily on a clean disc.  Typically it's less than 1x. 
> 
> I have been using a Yamaha Lightspeed 16-10-40 and w/ cdparanoia I get
> about 3x or 4x using a P!!! 800EB w/ 512MB and Mandrake 7.2.

Well that's a little more tolerable.  Do you think CPU speed makes
a lot of difference?  I figure cdparanoia isn't doing a lot of work
unless the disc has a lot of errors, right?

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