I've never found a hardware forum to post this, but I'm going to add a second burner to my system and I was curious if anyone had an opinion as to what the faster ripping DVD burners are out there. I have a fast burner, but before I buy, I was hoping to find a fast ripper.
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I recommend the Lite-On 167T which can be bought at Wal-Mart stores for about $30. It is about as fast as they come....It is however a DVD-ROM not a burner. Many burners have some sort of rip-lock on them which generally can be removed with modified/hacked firmware.
I'm with LABOY on this one. I have that drive and it works great, and yes, ripping with a reader and burning with a burner is the preferred way to go, it saves the life of your burner and sometimes ROM drives do better at ripping than burners do.
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I echo the above the 167T it has managed to get through everything, this is my second Lite-on DVD Rom and both have been great. As already stated it save life on your burner.
This is kind of late to be answering however; I use two Plextor PX-716SA (Serial ATA) burners and they both rip (decrypt) pretty fast. If you have a motherboard that supports SATA, I highly suggest the Plextor PX-716SA.
Plextor are one of the few burners that can be unlocked. Most are locked at around 2 or 4x for data transfer (ripping) Why do you need 2 burners?
You will almost always do better with a DVD ROM drive for ripping I also have the LiteON drive and swear by it, but I know the Plextor DVD ROM's are pretty darn good too :-) Mainly though the LiteON's seem to made specifically for ripping mine averages around 9 to 12X ripping (only a couple minutes to rip a DVD)
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No special reason for two burners, I just wanted two. BTW: Most lite-on players and burners that I have run into have plextor guts and the lite-on name on the outside, which would make their burners pretty darn good.
