Hello,
I just recently bought a second hand mac mini + 1 terabyte WD Mybook Premium's so that I can setup my home media box in the lounge room loaded with all of our home movies + dvds encoded on h.264.
Currently I have my macbook, ibook and mac mini all ripping my dvds so that I can batch convert. However the internal drive read speeds are horrendously slow! Each dvd is taking around 30 minutes to extract via mac the ripper!
However, when i boot my macbook into windows, it copies at full speed and does each disc in about 10-15 minutes. Also, when using an external firewire DVD burner, it'll copy each disc in 10 minutes or so.
Currently i'm using the inference that there is some limitation in OSX to reduce copy speed and at the same time reduce the amount of noise that the drives are making when extracting, but is there any way to override this? I know back in *shudders* windows xp, you could do it via the device manager, but in OSX i have not beena ble to find anything yet.
Thanks.
I just recently bought a second hand mac mini + 1 terabyte WD Mybook Premium's so that I can setup my home media box in the lounge room loaded with all of our home movies + dvds encoded on h.264.
Currently I have my macbook, ibook and mac mini all ripping my dvds so that I can batch convert. However the internal drive read speeds are horrendously slow! Each dvd is taking around 30 minutes to extract via mac the ripper!
However, when i boot my macbook into windows, it copies at full speed and does each disc in about 10-15 minutes. Also, when using an external firewire DVD burner, it'll copy each disc in 10 minutes or so.
Currently i'm using the inference that there is some limitation in OSX to reduce copy speed and at the same time reduce the amount of noise that the drives are making when extracting, but is there any way to override this? I know back in *shudders* windows xp, you could do it via the device manager, but in OSX i have not beena ble to find anything yet.
Thanks.