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Hey gang! I just got my firmware updated to rip UHD thanks to Billy's service. Thanks Billy!

Ripping my first UHD disk - NOPE. I mean, yep, ripping Nope.

Reading at about 8.9 M/s. I may be spoiled by more modern tech but is this speed "normal?" Looking like anywhere from about 3:30 to 15 hours to rip a disk although the remaining time is decreasing fairly rapidly.

Happy to have this working and definitely licensing the software once I get a proof of life. Going to set up a temp Plex server on my laptop and if that works I'm going all in with a server computer and some big spinny disks.

So far so good!

Speed of rip depends on many factors. A large one is, "Where are you reading on the disk?"

At the beginning of a disk, there is less data per rotation, but it increases as you get further out. The disk will only spin so fast (and that can vary with the available power), so it will read faster later in the rip.

When you hit the end of "side one", the drive slows down (under MakeMKV control) so that it can find the start of "side two", as well as when it transitions to "side three".

Let it rip for a while, and it will get faster.

Thanks DVD tech is so funny compared to what we have now.