hopefully someone can shed some light on why my rip speeds are so low with my external firewire cd-rw. I have a Pismo 400 OS X.1.3, 512 RAM with the original drive bay cd/dvd drive. I also have a Yamaha 16x10x40 cdrw in an ADS Pyro (non 911) firewire enclosure. I don't recall what the cd speed is on the original cd/dvd drive that came with the Pismo, but I know it was slower than the Yamaha's 40x. So naturally I expected that my ripping in iTunes would benefit from the added speed of the external drive. To my surpirse, the external firewire drive was slower than the stock drive! I get ~3x speeds with the original drive, but under 2x with the firewire drive. What gives?!?
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