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I am presently re-ripping my CD collection as FLAC, having previously
done them as MP3s (which was a mistake - I should have bought more disk
in the first place). FLACs are roughly 10 times the size of MP3s. About
1% of my CD collection is proving to be unrippable, despite having
previously been OK.
Commenting on the 3 previous messages in this thread :

Yes, the Optiarc 7240s internal drives seem to be about the same speed
as the external LG drive that has failed, and would be ideal for him if
they were external usb drives. I do notice that the Optiarc slim drives
for which cheap usb cases are available are rated at half the speed of
the 7240s's.

My tests here, ripping a CD into a laptop, showed that using dbPoweramp
took something like 5 to 6 minutes, EAC took longer. The laptop drive,
and my external drive are both slimline.
My understanding is that dbPoweramp uses a database called Accuraterip
to check rip quality, whereas EAC does repeat reads (and may also check
with Accuraterip) to get the best quality possible. This may exceed the
"quality" of the tracks in the AR database, or not.

My chum has in the tens of thousands of specialist CD's, some being
non-commercial CD-RW's of music and events he has been involved with
over the years. His aim is to get the best of this findable on this
"Brennan" device and easily accessible via his lounge hi-fi system with
control via a Surface tablet laptop from a comfy chair. He is nearly
there, but has had disaster after disaster. I think he has about 3,000
done to date.

Over the years he has converted from open reel to DAT to CD, so he is
used to having to move forward.
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Bill