[Paranoia] CDROM Brand/Model Recommendations?

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:15 -0500, Monty wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:50:19PM -0800, Parker Johnson wrote:
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> > Hello.  I just started working at a ripping facility that does tons of 
> > cd ripping.  We have 12 frankenstein ripping machines at the moment.  
> > These machines are mostly just older machines that people have had 
> > laying around.  Of course, several of them experience cd ripping errors 
> > and now we are considering standardizing on new cdroms (but 
> > unfortunately not replacing the machines in which the cdroms are 
> > going).  Is there a recommended brand of cdrom that cdparanoia likes and 
> > is a no brainer install on Linux.  We need something tht will be able to 
> > handle hundreds and hundreds of hours of use too.  Any suggestions 
> > appreciated.
> 
> Personally, I buy low-end LG drives.  They're cheap, fast, and don't
> try to be overly clever, which means they tend not to trip themselves
> up when something goes wrong (like Plextor has picked up a habit of
> doing), but just pass it along for Paranoia to deal with... which is
> exactly what paranoia is designed for.
> 
> And if one breaks, you're out, eh, $20.  So far though, I've not had
> breakage issues (been runnign four of them for a few years now).

I take a similar philosophy; right now the drive I have that rips best
is the cheapest DVD+RW drive Best Buy had, which is a Lite-On.  These
days cheap drives generally don't have bad streaming problems, etc., so
it's basically "if it breaks, what'll it cost me".
-- 
        Peter