• As far as I'm aware, read speed doesn't matter. In my set up, the file is buffered in the laptop's ram in any case.

    I guess ymmv depending on playback arrangements, but I haven't heard of HD read speed being a thing in terms of sound quality.

  • CD ROM read speed IS important! Not for quality but if you’re ripping a thousand CDs you don’t want to do it at 1x playback speed.

    The constraint on ripping isn’t HD write speed but the speed at which you can pull the data off the CD. so get the fastest one you can :)

  • get the fastest one you can

    Meh. 24× will rip a CD in 3 minutes, you won't have finished editing the ID3 tags on the previous one in that time.

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