Re: Recommendations for external DVD-ROM drive?

"Fred Maxwell [email protected] [EAC]" <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Oct 2020 18:31:18 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.eac.user
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I took the 2019 AccurateRip drive accuracy scores and formatted them into a CSV file.  

The drive model, in some cases, seems to be prefaced with some kind of media capability (e.g. BD-RE, DVD+-RW, etc.).  I have no explanation why it appears on some and not on others.  Live with it.  :)

The CSV file is enclosed.  It includes more than 1100 drives, so if I screwed up the formatting/columnizing on a few, be gentle.

Please bear in mind that the sample set of users, computers, operating systems, software packages, CDs, and settings are not uniform across all drives..  Due to the limited amount of data, we can’t tell if all of the inaccurate reads for a given drive came from just one or two users (who scatter their CDs around on the floor without jewel cases) or just one application, to cite a couple of examples of uncertainty this introduces.  

Import it into a spreadsheet, sort it, add columns if you like; perhaps you could come up with a formula that weights accuracy scores based on number of users, number of inaccurate reads per user, etc.

Regards,
  Fred Maxwell
  Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup