Using systems to speed up ripping multiple CD's, Parallel systems run quicker than series Options

[Chimera1to1]

I thought I would start a new thread as I have discovered, what to anyone that knows maths and systems is probably blindingly obvious.

Firstly I downloaded dB poweramp to a single PC. £29

I then bought a USB DVD writer at low cost. £20

I already have a USB 3 1Tb drive and a 500gig hard drive.

dBPoweramp seems to allow you to run multiple copies simultaneously on the same PC, allocating a CD drive and a hard drive to each piece of open software.

By seperating the CD's out into two piles, clean CD's and scratchy CD's you can ensure that when you put a scratchy CD in drive A, drive B continues to work at full speed processing good CD's. The throughput of drive B is thus not effected by the slow scratchy ones. Also non-ripping activities such as unboxing and changing CD's occur whilst the other drive is still ripping.

So for £20 my throughput of rips is at least 4x faster.

I also chose to save as FLAC 0, because it is quick. Presumably if I wanted to I could batch convert seperately overnight?

Any other tips for increasing speed for multiple rips?

This post has been edited by Chimera1to1: Jan 11 2013, 16:49

[db1989]

Your throughput would be at best 2× faster, not 4× – and the former is probably hopelessly optimistic, even if you have two cores and fully allocate one to each ripping process, a condition that you didn’t specify either way.