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Why is the new super drive so slow, took almost 10 minutes to transfer a music cd
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Direct you to the proper forum for MacBook :
MacBook Series Forums
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
Mac OS X Forum
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
This forum deals with a desktop/tower 65lb Mac Pro
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro
because USB is slow? because iTunes was converting each track?
10 minutes not that slow, if it is whole CD album ripping with iTumes.
I'm new to mac, thought there may be another step. When I bought the SUPERdrive I thought it would be super.
My OLD pc would transfer at 12 to 17x. So I guess it's all comparitive. I'm used to 2-3 minutes to download a cd to itunes.
Silly me, I just spent $1800 thinking I would have a better machine (which would include *faster*)
I wonder if this new SUPERMAC is *better* than my 7 year old pc now.
Guess I need to do some more research before my 30 day return policy runs out.
Super in superdrive is an old term that originally meant CD and DVD at a time when the CD/DVD was new, and then to include dual layer support.
If you also imported audio CDs on Windows into iTunes I would have assumed it was much the same, though other software for ripping audio could be very different.
Of course now Apple has bowed out of optical drives, which is all it ever was, and hyperbole to say "super"
It's a 14-day return policy, so if it does not meet your needs, take it right back.
That external drive IS super in that it reads and writes a lot of formats without requiring an external power supply.
If you want really FAST, you need to spring for an independently-powered desktop-class DVD drive in an external case. A case with FireWire and USB will run about US$100, and the drive another maybe US$30.
Thanks Grant
The Firewire comments may be a bit of red herring...it doesn't address the fact that my previous iMac 27" i7 with an internal drive ripped music CDs at 10x-14x without any problems. And, this new USB SuperDrive couldn't even hit 5x with USB 3 connected directly to the new Mac Pro - 3 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5 (32GB RAM and 3TB FusionDrive). I don't believe it's a bandwidth issue...and if it is, there is no reason for it to be that way. The RIP time is related to drive speed more than bandwidth. After all, a music CD is at best only 800 MB of data.
why is my brand new usb superdrive so slow, it transfers new music cd's at 4.3 x, equivalent to 20 year old technology
