Best/Fastest DVD-rom For Ripping?

[Deptmaster]

Well My dvd-rom is taking a crap on me. It was acting kinda weird and i just recently upgraded my computer cpu, motherboard, and memory and my OS to windows XP and now it won't even reconize the dvds half of the time. I tried messing with it but I think it pretty much shot.

I'm going to get a dvd burner eventually but right now i just want a cheap fix. What do you guys suggest?

[Deptmaster]

hmmm, is there some reason my dvd player will play music cdroms but none of my dvds?
Hmmmm.

[Tano]

To rip a dvd faster you need faster data transfer from the drive to the motherboard. So i recommend you buy a dvd burner thats ATA 66 (instead of the standard burner that uses a IDE cable at ATA 33).

The harddrive and CPU should be fast enough to cope with this data transfer rate so the only bottleneck is the burner.

[Deptmaster]

I decided on the Liteon DVD player, its an Ultra DMA3 drive so It should be pretty fast. The real reason i bought it though is becuase my liteon cdrw kicks serious a!# and I just hoping that their other products are as good.

As for my old dvdrom that seems to have reverted back to just a cdrom. I tried messing with the ide settings and i even installed a spare promise ATA100 ide controler for just the dvd player and i still get the exact same problem. It seems that not alot of people are having a problem like this so I'm hoping that this is just a hardware problem with the dvd player and not some software conflict with xp pro.

[ppera2]

UDMA 66 is not so important for ripping speed. By my Pioneer 116 I see very small difference in speed, couple %. It's normal, 16x speed means max some 23 MB/sec. You can get some speed if catch HD and DVD to different IDE channels. Buying extra card for modern MBO is waste of money.

[Deptmaster]

I would never buy one, i just happened to have one laying around.

[destemido]

ppera2 i also have a 116 and it rocks...
very fast, but has only one problem... doesn't like recorded cd's...
don't know why... and when ripping a cd it sometimes gives read errors but on my dru-500a i can rip the same cd just fine..