Would a Raptor help with ripping DVDs?

[Nocturnal]

Would it help any if I got a Raptor and used it to rip DVDs?

 

[InlineFive]

Not at all. A 8x DVD burner can burn at about 14.4MB/s and 7200RPM drives can sustain around 40MB/s. The only thing that would help is a faster burner and possibly faster media to meet the burner spec.

-Por

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Not at all. A 8x DVD burner can burn at about 14.4MB/s and 7200RPM drives can sustain around 40MB/s. The only thing that would help is a faster burner and possibly faster media to meet the burner spec.

-Por

He said ripping, not burning. So the DVD ROM will read about about twice the speed you specified for burning and the hard drive will write slower than it will read.
HOWEVER.
Any 7200Rpm hard drive will be fine.
That's not the bottleneck.
CPU.

 

[Bassyhead]

the bottleneck will be the dvd reading drive

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: Bassyhead
the bottleneck will be the dvd reading drive

Yes, well once you get a 16x drive there's really nothing you can do to upgrade. A CPU will help with transcoding it if you plan to burn it to a single layer disc later, that's about all you can do.

 

[Hamilton]

All 16x DVD drives dont rip at the same speed. Check out some reviews to see the difference between models.

 

[l3ored]

what about if you were ripping from a 56x cd drive?

 

[Wuzup101]

It would be kinda hard to rip a DVD from a 56x CD drive for obvious reasons (or atleast I would think they are obvious)

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Originally posted by: l3ored
what about if you were ripping from a 56x cd drive?

Um, a 56x cd drive has a maximum transfer rate of 8.4Mb/s, a 16x DVD drive has a max of about 22Mb/s...

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Woodchuck2000

Originally posted by: l3ored
what about if you were ripping from a 56x cd drive?

Um, a 56x cd drive has a maximum transfer rate of 8.4Mb/s, a 16x DVD drive has a max of about 22Mb/s...

...*8.