[Paranoia] SATA or external drive recommendations?

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Eric Altendorf
<ericaltendorf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ping -- does anyone have recommendations on drives?
>
> As detailed below, the drive I recently bought tests bad with
> cdparanoia, and indeed generates spectactularly bad rips even on clean
> CDs, full of staticky artifacts.  I'd like to get a drive that will
> work, but don't want to get burned again.

Sadly-- there's generally no way to tell without actually trying out
the drive.  Some very expensive drives have in the past caused major
problems, and some cheap/free drives have been among the best rippers
I've ever owned.

I just picked up some new Pioneer DVR-2910 drives, which are now the
only SATA drives I have personally.  They come recommended by others,
I should be able to give a report in a few days.

Monty