Hi all, I'm looking to buy a new dvd burner to make backups of my dvd collection. I'm looking at the Samsung S222a for a usb external case. I'm wondering about DL ripping speed. Before I buy I want to make sure its fast at ripping DL movies. I have the Samsung 203b and I can't get it to rip past 8000kb a sec. My Liteon rips really fast but I have a problem with the Liteon drives tray not working right. 6months old and my Liteon has a problem ejecting the tray sometimes. Any help would be great.

It's going to be at the same speed as your current Samsung, they are locked.

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Thanks MP3Mogul, my Samsung 203b does nothing but give me errors now when I try to burn anything. It says writing failed, wrong block address. I've tried different dvdr media and cd and says the same thing. The drive is only 6-8 months old. I don't think I'll ever buy another Samsung again. I've got Liteons older than that, that i've never had problems with. I've tried 10 different dvd+ r discs and the all fail and say wrong block address. I only use Sony or Verbatim dvd+ r. So to make sure I try it again as I write this and low and behold it writes a perfect disc. But still, I'll never buy another Samsung burner. Thanks again for the reply. I'll probably stick with LiteOn & Sony burners. I use to buy alot of LG burners also but the last one I bought wouldn't burn a quality disc. And they are rip locked also. Thanks

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