What are you using to rip your cds to a hard drive?


I had been using the cd drive in my old laptop to rip cds to my external hard drive.  I have since bought a new laptop that does not have a cd drive.  To get a cd into the computer I am using a cheap external disc reader.  What are you guys using to spin those silver discs into hard drives?  I think I need something better than what I have, but I don't think I want to spend thousands of dollars to buy a disc drive.  My budget would be less than $1,000,

What do you think?

kenrus

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Thanks for all the good advice.  I'm using an external drive and dbpoweramp to rip flac files to my pc and then move the files to an external hard drive.  The comments in these posts make me feel that I'm not missing any information from my ripped cds.

Let me take this into real dangerous territory.  Do the wires connecting the cd drive to the computer or the computer to the external hard drive or from the hard drive to the DAC make a difference?  I know the question of whether wires make a difference at all is a point of contention, but I believe that interconnects, power cabes, etc. make a difference.  What about those involved in the ripping process?