Ripping Machine

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thejawn

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I set up a old dell which formerly ran on XP, with Ubuntu. I plan on ripping my DVD collection onto this computer. The downfall is, it only has 256mb of ram. Do you think the lack of ram will slow down the process of burning?
 
Not really, but, it would be good if you had at least 512mb in XP for overall better performance. What matters more in faster ripping is the transer speed of the DVD drive itself. Some drives rip faster than other drives. If you intend on burning it on a blank dvd and it needs to compress and encode the video to fit on a 4.7gb disk, then the CPU will play a major part
 
Whoops, damn I'm losing it already. I need to reformat and reinstall myself. LoL.
 
Yah, I almost typed the same thing, but remembered reading ubuntu, so went back to check.

The 256MB of RAM shouldn't slow down the process of burning. Even if you're burning at 16x, thats only 16x1.32MB/s = 21.13MB/s, and any old ATA100 drive should be able to pull that without a problem on any system.

Now, if you meant to ask whether it would slow down ripping... then see HardwareGuru's first reply -- that process is more limited by the DVD Drive's read speed. Though, the answer is still the same... it shouldn't.
 
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