Re: Recommendations for external DVD-ROM drive?

> For better performance you should choose drives that do NOT cache
> audio data during reading. This can speed up audio extraction. EAC
> does manage caching drives, if you set them correctly in EAC
> options. But rip operation becomes slower and heavier for drive
> itself.

Thanks for the advice, I'll try to find a drive that doesn't cache.

A quick Google Search for "drives that do NOT cache audio data during
reading" provided some interesting Hydrogenaudio threads which I'll
read later today.
One of them contained a download link for the Cache Explorer
command-line utility cachex.exe, which can (quoting the README) "test
various aspects of drive caching". If anyone wants this let me know
and I'll upload it somewhere.

--Martin