I am seriously stumped. Ripping discs takes forever (over an hour at about 2 MB/S) but I can burn about twice as fast as that.
I have the following two DVD drives:
1) New NEC 3500
2) Older Generic DVD-ROM from Circuit City (according to the box, should rip up to 16MB/S)
Using various DVD Rippers (DVD Shrink and DVDDecrypter)the fastest that I can rip from either of these two drives is right at 2MB/S (2000 KB/S) - however burining back to the NEC Drive, I get about 5 MB's (5000 KB/S) during the burn which is about right for the discs I am using (4x).
What could be causing this? I was thinking the IDE cables since they are not the newest ones in the world, but since it?s able to burn discs faster I think that kind of rules out the IDE cables.
A couple other system specs:
P4 - 2.5 GHZ
512MB Crucial Ram
Maxtor 40GB hard drive
WD 80GB hard drive
I managed to resolve this issue... though I am not 100% sure how. Here is what I did.
1) Rebuilt my machine from a clean format - it was time anyway
2) Downloaded the latest drivers for EVERYTHING including the motherboard
3) Updated my firmware for the BIOS/DVD Drives
