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CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2011

AccurateRip collects data from all drives, normally this is only used to verify a disc is accurate, but can be reversed to calculate which drives are the most accurate (as measured by lowest % inaccurate tracks).

This test was previously run in 2009 and 2006, as time goes on more submissions give a greater meaning to the results, only drives with over 4000  submissions and 40 users are used.

Best of the Best are:

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Drive: PLEXTOR  - CD-R  PX-230A  (95 users):  Submissions: 5879 accurate    21 inaccurate    99.6427 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-R  UJ-85J  (82 users):  Submissions: 4455 accurate    20 inaccurate    99.5531 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-RAM UJ-852  (95 users):  Submissions: 5246 accurate    27 inaccurate    99.4880 % accuracy
Drive: PLEXTOR  - DVD-ROM PX-130A  (164 users):  Submissions: 5534 accurate    45 inaccurate    99.1934 % accuracy
Drive: PLEXTOR  - CD-R  PX-W2410A  (97 users):  Submissions: 5459 accurate    48 inaccurate    99.1284 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-RAM UJ-812  (44 users):  Submissions: 6032 accurate    59 inaccurate    99.0314 % accuracy
Drive: TSSTcorp - DVD-ROM TS-H352C  (91 users):  Submissions: 5389 accurate    67 inaccurate    98.7720 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - DVD+RW GSA-H31N  (125 users):  Submissions: 7002 accurate    88 inaccurate    98.7588 % accuracy
Drive: TSSTcorp - CD-DVDW SH-S183A  (350 users):  Submissions: 28844 accurate    391 inaccurate    98.6626 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - DVD-RAM GSA-H20L  (121 users):  Submissions: 6296 accurate    87 inaccurate    98.6370 % accuracy
Drive: TOSHIBA  - DVD-ROM SD-R9012  (50 users):  Submissions: 4092 accurate    57 inaccurate    98.6262 % accuracy
Drive: LITE-ON  - DVDRW SHM-165H6S  (158 users):  Submissions: 10948 accurate    165 inaccurate    98.5153 % accuracy
Drive: LITE-ON  - LTR-52327S  (188 users):  Submissions: 4460 accurate    69 inaccurate    98.4765 % accuracy
Drive: TSSTcorp - CD-DVDW TS-H652D  (59 users):  Submissions: 4045 accurate    63 inaccurate    98.4664 % accuracy
Drive: PLEXTOR  - CD-R  PX-W4824A  (146 users):  Submissions: 7377 accurate    115 inaccurate    98.4650 % accuracy
Drive: SONY    - DVD RW DW-G120A  (77 users):  Submissions: 4516 accurate    72 inaccurate    98.4307 % accuracy
Drive: LITE-ON  - DVDRW SHM-165P6S  (178 users):  Submissions: 7789 accurate    126 inaccurate    98.4081 % accuracy
Drive: PHILIPS  - CDRW-DVD SCB5265  (105 users):  Submissions: 9225 accurate    150 inaccurate    98.4000 % accuracy
Drive: PLEXTOR  - DVDR  PX-712A  (332 users):  Submissions: 15248 accurate    248 inaccurate    98.3996 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - RW-DVD GCC-4244N  (117 users):  Submissions: 5588 accurate    92 inaccurate    98.3803 % accuracy
Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-RAM UJ-850S  (557 users):  Submissions: 18602 accurate    309 inaccurate    98.3660 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - DVDRAM GSA-T50L  (135 users):  Submissions: 5644 accurate    97 inaccurate    98.3104 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - DVD-ROM GDR8161B  (127 users):  Submissions: 5635 accurate    98 inaccurate    98.2906 % accuracy
Drive: PBDS    - DVD+RW DH-16W1S  (125 users):  Submissions: 11485 accurate    200 inaccurate    98.2884 % accuracy
Drive: PLEXTOR  - DVDR  PX-708A  (340 users):  Submissions: 18083 accurate    316 inaccurate    98.2825 % accuracy
Drive: HL-DT-ST - RW-DVD GCC-4247N  (111 users):  Submissions: 12502 accurate    221 inaccurate    98.2630 % accuracy
Drive: TSSTcorp - CD-DVDW TS-H652L  (87 users):  Submissions: 7747 accurate    137 inaccurate    98.2623 % accuracy
Drive: PLEXTOR  - DVDR  PX-760A  (536 users):  Submissions: 45022 accurate    813 inaccurate    98.2262 % accuracy
Drive: PIONEER  - DVD-RW  DVR-215D  (217 users):  Submissions: 6090 accurate    111 inaccurate    98.2100 % accuracy


Once again the Plextor 230A reigns supreme.

For the complete list: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=23074

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Reply #1 –
Interesting as always.
Thanks for your effort!

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Reply #2 –
Quote from: spoon on
AccurateRip collects data from all drives, normally this is only used to verify a disc is accurate, but can be reversed to calculate which drives are the most accurate (as measured by lowest % inaccurate tracks).


Even though I won't change my setup, this kind of information is really appreciated. We should encourage drive vendor to try harder. Thanks a lot !

Jean

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Reply #3 –
Naming, and shaming, the worst might be helpful?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?  ;~)

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Reply #4 –

I am curious, since there is no data to rate the quality of the disks ripped, wouldn't accuracy be just as attributable to quality of the users cd archive, than the particular drives utilized?

In other words, you could say users with the top 10 drives tend to have pristine disks, instead of saying that the drives are more 'accurate'.

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Reply #5 –
Quote from: Teknojnky on
I am curious, since there is no data to rate the quality of the disks ripped, wouldn't accuracy be just as attributable to quality of the users cd archive, than the particular drives utilized?

In other words, you could say users with the top 10 drives tend to have pristine disks, instead of saying that the drives are more 'accurate'.



With the required number of entries and users its hard to say, but I bet it all comes out in the wash. I have a PX-230, but I only use it to rip tracks that I can't rip in my other drives as I like to have over-reading into the read in/out. So virtually every track I have submitted for a 230 is from a track that can't be ripped accurately on another drive and >50+% still can't be ripped with the 230, so I am bringing the numbers down.

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Reply #6 –
Those who rip with 2 drives (or more) are not included in these results, so it is not possible to bring the results down, unless you installed a specific 2nd PC for that one drive + bad discs.

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Reply #7 –
Quote from: spoon on
Those who rip with 2 drives (or more) are not included in these results


doesn't that exclude a ton of results?

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so it is not possible to bring the results down, unless you installed a specific 2nd PC for that one drive + bad discs.


I don't see why this is relevant, nor why you would want to exclude results from people with 2 or more drives.

Having more drives is a good thing, not a bad thing.

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Reply #9 –
it is impossible to prevent that, as already mentioned you simply rip it in a different computer.

the average household has what, 3 or 4 computers now a days?

I don't see how ripping the same disk in a different computer is any different than ripping with the same 2 drives in one computer.

You can't prevent it from happening, why exclude it? It can't hurt, every data point helps.

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Reply #10 –
Quote from: Teknojnky on
I don't see how ripping the same disk in a different computer is any different than ripping with the same 2 drives in one computer.

Some people use two drives, one for the first rip and one to take care of damaged discs if the first rip fails. In my case the second one, PX-230A, is only fed the bad discs, so the statistics would be way worse.
It's much less likely to see this scenario involving multiple computers and even then, it's not detectable. So it perfectly makes sense to exclude those using multiple drives, because you don't know on what the decision which drive to use for a specific rip is based.

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Reply #11 –
Quote from: soulsearchingsun on
Some people use two drives, one for the first rip and one to take care of damaged discs if the first rip fails.


sure, it is also just as likely that people with multiple drives are ripping multiple disks simultaniously too.

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In my case the second one, PX-230A, is only fed the bad discs, so the statistics would be way worse.


it should be equally worse for any other drive in the machine. Heck it should be even better for the drives that can rip damaged disks vs those that can't.

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It's much less likely to see this scenario involving multiple computers and even then


we will have to agree to disagree here

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it's not detectable. So it perfectly makes sense to exclude those using multiple drives, because you don't know on what the decision which drive to use for a specific rip is based.


makes zero sense to me, because the decision to use which drive should be irrelevant.

Every valid rip, from every valid drive, should count. Regardless, and especially, if there are multiple drives in a particular system.

same disk, ripped in one system with 3 different drives;
drive a rips disk 80% accurately
drive b rips disk 90% accurately
drive c rips disk 99% accurately

That is the data that I want to see included.

But thats just my opinion.

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Reply #12 –
I am the same, any tough discs get fed to the 230a, for normal ripping I use a run of the mill laptop drive (for convenience). Anyhow it is all academic, AccurateRip does not store the drive make with individual results, only an overview of which drives are configured, so we could not assign rips to a certain drive even if I wanted to (unless there is only 1 drive configured).

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Reply #13 –
Quote from: spoon on
Once again the Plextor 230A reigns supreme.


Does anyone have any idea where I can buy a PX 230A? I'm in the UK, I've searched on Ebay UK and Amazon UK, and all searches have turned up zero results. Likewise with the second-placed Matshita DVD-R UJ-85J.

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Reply #14 –
Quote from: Phil Friel on
Quote from: spoon on
Once again the Plextor 230A reigns supreme.


Does anyone have any idea where I can buy a PX 230A? I'm in the UK, I've searched on Ebay UK and Amazon UK, and all searches have turned up zero results. Likewise with the second-placed Matshita DVD-R UJ-85J.


I'm in the UK also, and have looked many times to buy a PX-230A with no luck.  I did eventually pick up a Plextor Premium for £15 off ebay (listing was mis-spelt!), but these aren't particularly high up the list.  More recently, I went down this list to see what's the best ripping drive I could find and managed to find 2 Plextor PX-130A drives for £15!

Although I would still love a PX 230A, I remind myself that these are just statistics and any drive in the top 20 will likely be better than whatever random drive is in your PC (mine happened to be in bottom 10 list!). I'd just keep checking ebay and a decent drive will turn up eventually.