Bluray Drive Ripping Question

Ripping without encoding will be affected by drive speed..... Ripping with encoding will be more affected by CPUspeed
 
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Where Blu-ray ripping is concerned, most definitely get the fastest drive you can find since ripping one is going to take a long time. If you're used to ripping DVDs and it taking 10-20 minutes, a Blu-ray is going to take much longer since it's anywhere from 2.5 to 6 times more information (DVDs max at about 8.5GB, a Blu-Ray can literally have ~50GB of it and some actually do).

So definitely, get the fastest one possible given your budget.
 
You do know that the above mention is only a reader. There is talk in this thread about ripping, and you would need a writer drive for that which is ~100+. Just heads up if you missed it?
 
"Ripping" is the process of pulling content from optical media be it audio data from CDs or audio/video data from DVDs or Blu-rays - it only requires a reader so... that 8x drive is perfect just for such purposes.

For people serious about ripping, I'd always recommend a dedicated drive just for that process: reading/ripping content, and saving your burner (whatever kind it might be) for burning alone. This one-two-punch methodology saves wear and tear on both drives since no single one is forced to do it all.

So, no, "ripping" DVDs or Blu-rays doesn't require writing capability at all.
 
FRAGizm said:
You do know that the above mention is only a reader. There is talk in this thread about ripping, and you would need a writer drive for that which is ~100+. Just heads up if you missed it?
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Wut?
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FRAGizm said:
You do know that the above mention is only a reader. There is talk in this thread about ripping, and you would need a writer drive for that which is ~100+. Just heads up if you missed it?
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WRONG!

Ripping is done by reading the disc.
 
You will also want to look into the firmware limitations of the drive. Many BluRay drives will only allow reading the disc at max speed when "playing" the disc as opposed to copying the raw data with something like AnyDVD. However, there is a neat little util to fix that called MediaCodeSpeedEdit, check if your drive is supported by it, most are.
 
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