[CUBE] iTunes Speed/Performance Feedback

[Kunga]

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