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April 24, 2006

Slllooowwww...

I picked up a 250G drive from Tiger Direct and have started re-ripping my CD collection into FLAC. The "re-rip to end all re-rips," as they say.

I'm sorta disappointed that I'm only getting 6x real time extraction/compression rates - it seems I/O bound to the ROM drive, as the CPU is mostly idle, as is the destination drive. It seems silly that I can burn a CD faster than I can read one.

So far, with 20 albums ripped, the average on-disk size is 337M, so I might be able to fit my entire collection on this disk, but it'll be close.

Posted by dberger at April 24, 2006 8:17 AM

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