SATA or external drive recommendations?

I just spent the last 6 hours or so testing various things to
determine why I was getting obvious and really awful skips and other
audible defects with scratched CDs in cdparanoia.

Turns out it is probably due to my new drive being one of the crappy
ones with a cache that cdparanoia doesn't know how to model (yet),
since 'cdparanoia -A' fairly reliably returns "PARANOIA MAY NOT BE
TRUSTWORTHY WITH THIS DRIVE!".  I've sent several analysis logs to
paranoia-dev, so hopefully that will help, but I have a whole bunch of
CDs I'd like to rip ASAP, so I would probably rather not wait and
instead just get a new drive that doesn't suck.

I had a PATA drive that worked fine, but I had to replace my mobo and
accidentally got one without enough PATA connectors, so I bought a new
SATA drive.  It's the new SATA that won't rip reliably.  So, I'm
looking for a SATA that works well with cdparanoia, or an external.
Thanks!

frustrated,

--eric
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Ping -- does anyone have recommendations on drives?

As detailed below, the drive I recently bought tests bad with
cdparanoia, and indeed generates spectactularly bad rips even on clean
CDs, full of staticky artifacts.  I'd like to get a drive that will
work, but don't want to get burned again.

thanks.

--eric

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Eric Altendorf <ericaltendorf@...> wrote:

> I just spent the last 6 hours or so testing various things to
> determine why I was getting obvious and really awful skips and other
> audible defects with scratched CDs in cdparanoia.
>
> Turns out it is probably due to my new drive being one of the crappy
> ones with a cache that cdparanoia doesn't know how to model (yet),
> since 'cdparanoia -A' fairly reliably returns "PARANOIA MAY NOT BE
> TRUSTWORTHY WITH THIS DRIVE!".  I've sent several analysis logs to
> paranoia-dev, so hopefully that will help, but I have a whole bunch of
> CDs I'd like to rip ASAP, so I would probably rather not wait and
> instead just get a new drive that doesn't suck.
>
> I had a PATA drive that worked fine, but I had to replace my mobo and
> accidentally got one without enough PATA connectors, so I bought a new
> SATA drive.  It's the new SATA that won't rip reliably.  So, I'm
> looking for a SATA that works well with cdparanoia, or an external.
> Thanks!
>
> frustrated,
>
> --eric
>

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Eric Altendorf
<ericaltendorf@...> wrote:
> Ping -- does anyone have recommendations on drives?
>
> As detailed below, the drive I recently bought tests bad with
> cdparanoia, and indeed generates spectactularly bad rips even on clean
> CDs, full of staticky artifacts.  I'd like to get a drive that will
> work, but don't want to get burned again.

Sadly-- there's generally no way to tell without actually trying out
the drive.  Some very expensive drives have in the past caused major
problems, and some cheap/free drives have been among the best rippers
I've ever owned.

I just picked up some new Pioneer DVR-2910 drives, which are now the
only SATA drives I have personally.  They come recommended by others,
I should be able to give a report in a few days.

Monty
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