[CUBE] iTunes Speed/Performance Feedback

[Brian Kurotsuchi]

I believe you will be able to take advantage of the SMP if you have 2 CD-ROM
drives.  iTunes doesn't seem to be written to split up ripping of a single
disk, but it is capable of processing more than one disk at a time.  So in
effect, each CPU would be processing each CD (yes, I know how OSs work and
this is not necessarily technically accurate).

I haven't tested this of course since I have a Cube...   :)

Brian

Quoting Kunga (Kunga at FutureMedia.org):
> Your reader is now your bottleneck. Watch OfficeMax ads. Right now you 
> can get a 52x24x52x CD-RW drive there for $9.95 after $40 rebate. 
> Remove your old 24x reader and put the new one in your FW case and try 
> that for ripping. You should get 19X rips at least. I would love to 
> know what your rip speed is after you do this. I hope you do. It's $14 
> including 8% sales tax here in California.
> 
> k
> 
> On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 07:56 PM, Daniel Love wrote:
> 
> >I recently upgraded to the Sonnet 1.2. I was thinking of going to the 
> >1.2 Dual Processor PowerMac but decided that I loved the silence of 
> >the Cube too much to desert it. The fan in the upgrade package is real 
> >quiet. I have an external FW hard drive that is noisier than the Cube 
> >with fan. And I only turn it on when I need it. Thank god for 
> >Firewire. And of course any time the CD is running it is louder than 
> >anything else in the room.
> >
> >Ripping CD's before the upgrade was a 5x to 7x proposition 
> >(24X--CD-RW). After the 1.2 upgrade, rips are between 15x to 17x. I 
> >have few complaints (with the speed that is). I have been ripping at 
> >the 160 rate and have found that to be right for me. My brother rips 
> >at 320, but he's crazy.
> >
> >How is it that PC's rip in the mid 20x's? My wife's Gateway 
> >consistently rips at 23x-25x. It blows my mind.
> >
> >K-Man, if you ripped 8-10 CD's a day you would finish in less than a 
> >year. (assuming you were to go cold turkey and not buy any for that 
> >time). I just purchased the latest album from John Scofield from Apple 
> >for 9.99 and it took no time to DL. Not only did I say $$$ but also 
> >the time to rip it, which equals $$$.
> >
> >Dan