massive ripper
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:44 pm
I'm thinking of building a massive ripper with 10 CD drives to offer a service to rip your entire CD collection at once, like http://www.ripdigital.com/.
I figure two boxes = 20 drives would keep me busy enough just swapping in CDs, ripping to wav files. Then I'd take the boxen home and let them encode to mp3 and look up the CDDB info, etc.
Anyhow, from my calculations 40x DAE will produce ~6MB/s when on the outer track. 10 CDs would be 60MB/s then. And all that data has to go back to a hard drive or two, so 120MB/s throughput would be ideal.
A PCI 2.1 bus can handle 264 MB/s, which would be adequate. I guess I would need an EIDE/ATA card for each set of 4 drives. 12 drives-10 CD & 2 hard drives would mean 2 cards + motherboard ATA support.
When done encoding I'll burn DVDs with all the music on them.
So did I do my math correctly? I know very little about ATA cards and such, so any links or help there is really appreciated. I plan on running linux or freebsd on these boxes.
Thanks!
Monty
I figure two boxes = 20 drives would keep me busy enough just swapping in CDs, ripping to wav files. Then I'd take the boxen home and let them encode to mp3 and look up the CDDB info, etc.
Anyhow, from my calculations 40x DAE will produce ~6MB/s when on the outer track. 10 CDs would be 60MB/s then. And all that data has to go back to a hard drive or two, so 120MB/s throughput would be ideal.
A PCI 2.1 bus can handle 264 MB/s, which would be adequate. I guess I would need an EIDE/ATA card for each set of 4 drives. 12 drives-10 CD & 2 hard drives would mean 2 cards + motherboard ATA support.
When done encoding I'll burn DVDs with all the music on them.
So did I do my math correctly? I know very little about ATA cards and such, so any links or help there is really appreciated. I plan on running linux or freebsd on these boxes.
Thanks!
Monty