I have an external usb dvd drive and an internal blu-ray drive. I use both at the same time for ripping movies to My Book 3TB external hard drive. I've noticed that the external dvd drive is considerably slower than the blu-ray drive. Any idea if the cause is because the dvd drive is usb connection instead of internal drive? If I replaced it with an internal dvd drive do you think it would be faster? I don't know the R/W rates of the two drives.
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Jump to PostRipping movies is illegal in most countries!
Jump to PostI think you're right, USB is the bottleneck.
What flavour of USB do you have?Even USB3 still has the extra overhead of SATA/USB conversion that an internal drive doesn't have.
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