Dear cdfreaks allover the world, my name is Pantelis and i have a question about the reading speed of the DVDs.
Witch do you think is the fastest way to read a DVD (movie or data) and transfer it to the hard drive?
I have a sony DVD rom drive and i read that it has a 150mb/sec transfer rate others have 85, the best speed tha i had was 6.8x for transfer, is there fastest way how about 16x ?
My burner is LG 4160b and i think it is a bit slower to read than sony dvdrom but it is good for errors.
Use a stop watch to test both drives by ripping a dual layer DVD movie.
Use an AOPEN DVD1648/AAP PRO. 
The benq DW1620 is a DVD ripping monster with the speed patch:
Check out: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=130538 for some examples of 16x ripping.
I agree… I fitted my PC with the same drive and it has the best ripping speeds I have seen. It’s pretty cheap, came with 3 different front bezels (white, silver, black) and it works like a charm.
It’s also good for other reasing purposes btw (CDROM/DAE etc).
Current record holder is BTC BDV316B with 12.28x.
Yo-
My AOpen 1648/aap Pro reads at 12.92x max with 9.76x average and a 10.45 minute read time for a 7.75gb pressed disc-
Mike
Yo-
Obviously I posted the average speed.