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After wearing out a few I got the OWC Mercury case, then you can get a bare drive. Read speed is probably more important if all you are doing is ripping CD’s but if you have any blu ray you want to read there’s a smaller list of drives that will work with the software you need to rip them.
If you use Apple Music to rip them you will probably get a percentage with audible problems because apple doesn’t error check the rip results. DbPoweramp is usually cited as the best ripper for mac and that’s been borne out in my experience ripping 1000’s of cd’s.
With the current state of tech I would probably just spend the money on a streaming subscription but a few years ago it still seemed worth doing.
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Moving from an iPad Air as my primary device back to a laptop, likely MB Air 3. I will need a quality burner for my cd collection of about 600. I plan to reburn these and so a fairly quick unit would be nice, plus one that can accommodate older/possibly scratched discs. I’ll be storing these on the computer, likely on the hated Apple Music because I don’t tech. There will also be external backups.
I understand the drawer or clamshell type is preferred over slotted, and 16x over 8x write speed?
Any favourites?