Correct, the anti copy CDs don't have the red book logo, and were relatively common in those years, I would say one in 20 discs from that era in my collection .
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Knowingly I've seen one copy protected disk (Mensch by Grönemeyer) which I had borrowed. It did not play in my CD player, probably because it was a semi professional CD recorder (Tascam CDRW 700) using a computer drive. My Plextor drive in the PC however just ripped it without any problems. I remember people telling similar stories so copy protection became known as playback protection.
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Are you kidding me? I was sure I was listening to Mozart who had died not long before, on CDNot that far back!
I think it was more 1982.
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I ripped 1300 CDs over a three month period using EAC.
Nearly all of them were bought used, and many had visible sctatches.
Well cared for CDs present no problems, but imperfect ones took a long time to read. Some. drives seemed to handle this better than others, but this only presented itself as ripping speed. My current $20 half height drive makes accurate rips.
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It can be important to ensure the external bus-powered drives are getting enough power - different ports put out different amounts of power, and different drives react differently to low power settings. I’ve got a usb powered verbatim blu ray drive that won’t work at all on some ports, works great on others and throws errors on others. You might need a powered usb hub or y-cable if you have trouble getting reliable outcomes.
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Much of recent thought I've read is that RAID 5 (or even 6) should not be the choice when you are that high in TBs. The resilvering process is far too long, and risk of total loss on a slight error is too high. While at a higher cost, mirror drives (or even clusters of mirrors that ZFS makes easy to do) remains the safest option.
The trade off of a bit more expense is far better than the risk of having to re-rip everything. Though if you maintain very good backup discipline with off-line copies that are known good, you can take the risk of your local RAID 5 (or Raid 6) array completely crapping out on you during a botched resilver.
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Personally, I would strongly recommend skipping the SATA => USB adapter for an external drive.
Just get one that has USB already built in (instead of SATA). They are slimmer, very portable across all computers, no adapters to fiddle with (or go bad), no hassle with separate power supply, and less expensive overall. Any of the CD/DVD players in the $20 to $30 range should be perfectly good enough. Or, get one that also supports Bluray.
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I just ripped around 400 cd’s to Flac recently using a cheap $10 usb dvd drive from Amazon. Maybe around 5 of them had read errors and I couldn’t rip them.
You read thoughts aka opinions. And the story of the dangerous raid5/6 gets repeated for ages there. Some people propagate their softraid/fs solution simply because it's the only thing they have or can handle. And they usually mix drive redundancy and backup into one big topic.
Redundancy is to counter downtime. That's a thing of requirements and calculation. Massive overspending is possible, but it will never replace a backup.
Today, I just happened to come to this thread.
This is a bit of a digression from the main topic of this thread, but since RAID configurations seem to be a subject of discussion, I would like to share a link to the thread for my recently started "10GbE Xeon TrueNAS Project" for your reference; where I have been intesively testing/evaluating stability and robustness of ZFS RAIDZ2 storage pool consists of five (5) HDDs.
This is a bit of a digression from the main topic of this thread, but since RAID configurations seem to be a subject of discussion, I would like to share a link to the thread for my recently started "10GbE Xeon TrueNAS Project" for your reference; where I have been intesively testing/evaluating stability and robustness of ZFS RAIDZ2 storage pool consists of five (5) HDDs.
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