I've had great success so far with both DVDs and Blu-rays - only one hiccup with Interstellar, but I think the disc itself was flawed. Here's my issue - up until now, I was perfectly content that both DVDs and Blu-rays took hours to rip. I just assumed that it was a labor intensive, slow process. Then I started reading about people ripping a BR in thirty minutes. So i started paying more attention to things and finally realized that all of my rip reads were going at 0.1x or 0.2x instead of 6x, 8x, 10x or more. I read up on riplocked drives and could only dream of ripping at 2x.
I'm running Windows 7 x64 on an i7, 6GB DDR3 RAM, 250GB SSD and storing on an external HDD. I started with an LG UH12NS30 and thought maybe it was a bad drive. I now have a Pioneer BDR-209D (with newest 1.31 firmware) and have the exact same speed issue. I've switched SATA ports and SATA cables, DMA is enabled. I've disabled AV and any noon-essential software, run hardware tests on my HDDs without any effect. The processor and RAM usage both stay low during rips.
Every once in a blue moon the read speed "spikes" up to about 4x for 10 seconds or so and then falls back to 0.1x or 0.2x (even 0.0x) for the next 30-45 minutes. The rips are ultimately successful, they just take forever. What else can I look at to increase the read speed? What could be causing such a low read speed when I have a more than capable machine to be burning on? I'm baffled but hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, comments or tips.