Ripping CD's to hard drive

Perhaps we should also mention that ripping to an SSD or a USB instead of a traditional HD will not only be faster but should be more reliable in the long term?

SSDs now also come in a similar form as RAM sticks (the ultra fast NVMe PCIe 3.0/4.0) and USB is up to version 3.

Surprisingly there’s also some evidence that SSDs in order to function optimally need at least as much free space as traditional hard drives do (10%).

USB sticks are generally reliable and I’ve haven't experienced any problems with them apart from a couple of cheap ones off eBay I was using in the car and carelessly removed before turning the media player off.

In both cases the USB stick was left totally unresponsive. It wasn’t too big a deal because they were both backed up at least twice.

All good solutions.

+1 Exact Audio Copy & +1 dbpoweramp on my HP notebook with a cd drive.

Store them on an SSD from Crucial Technology in a plastic drive case from Amazon.

Linked via USB cable - PC to cd drive to rip.

Linked via USB cable - SSD to Streamer / Player.

Several SSD’s for backup.

Permits using any streamer / player and DAC.

Very simple, inexpensive, reliable and flexible.

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Very simple, inexpensive, reliable and flexible.

A bit off topic....

As a tech novice, I'd like to find an easy was to rip my SACD discs and get the DSD layer to my Server/PC.

It appears the "easiest" is finding an old OPPO and using complex software & networking techniques. 

Is there a 1-stop solution - i.e. insert the SACD disk and directly send DSD layer to a PC?

I'm using DB Poweramp for ripping on a PC now, and the bitperfect feature is reassuring. I have already ripped my entire library on lesser software and going back to re-rip some due to some found errors. I was troubleshooting what I was hearing as a gap in the music upon playback and it actually came down to the VLC player software on the Macbook, and not a problem with the rip. The same music CD ripped on two different softwares were exhibiting the gap/pop and it was consistently at the same exact timing spot on the recording when playing in VLC Player, but a different timing spot on rip versions depending on what software ripped the song. In the end, the rips were all good, but there was something left in the original rips that VLC player had issues with, even though it's all ones and zeros! Now using different player software(s) there is no issue with the rips/recordings at all. I was surprised that the error was in playback software. That said, DB Poweramp seems to be a great rip solution even with the free version.