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| | | Rioddas External CD/DVD Drive for Laptop, USB 3.0 CD DVD Player Portable +/-RW Burner CD ROM Reader Writer Disk Duplicator Compatible with Laptop Desktop PC Windows Apple Mac Pro MacBook Linux
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DLRG9VH?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
Had been using the rattly drive in my old Win10 laptop for ripping, but that was a bit of a pain and there was no way to argue against getting this popular drive once it dropped to the sub-$20 level. 24x read/write, kind of surprised it isn't faster reading than the old drive but that seems to be where things have landed, judging from a very small sample I checked on Amazon.
First try-out was on a Goal Storm PS1 disc that hung ImgBurn at analyzing track 2 and produced a read error in PowerISO on my old lappy's drive. With the Rioddas on my Win11 laptop, got the same hang in ImgBurn (see entry 1741), but no errors, seemingly fully working rip first time from PowerISO (see entry 1877). |
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| | | The second disc Goal Storm disc I got from eBay ALSO hangs ImgBurn right after starting, at analyzing track 2--so I guess this really is a PS1 game that is incompatible with ImgBurn. I wonder if it happens with other early US PS1 games. (Just like the other disc, it ripped without errors in PowerISO on my new drive and reported an I/O error at the exact same spot on my old drive, hung in ImgBurn in the old drive as well as in the new one, and played fine on my PSOne.)
I'd said I wouldn't sell a disc that didn't read without errors in ImgBurn, but errors with this particular game have happened in exactly the same way with two discs, and it plays fine in a PSOne, so it must be something to do with the pressing of the disc, and not something indicative of damage to the disc. So I'm going to sell the nicer-looking disc (the first one) and keep the second one. |
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| | | | ^ Explaining the software/drive compatibility thing in an eBay auction would be a bit of a nightmare so I'm just going to request a return (since that seller said the disc was "Like New" and showed a photo of a disc with no scratches, but the disc they sent me is as covered in scratches as you'd expect a used early US PS1 disc to be). |
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