Is there any good way to *quickly* copy a large amount (~300) of old CDs and DVDs to a hard drive? I burned the first ones like 15 years ago, the last ones like 10 years ago, back when hard disk space was more limited. Just an old archive of stuff I did and downloaded from the net. Since they altogether take less than 2TB of data, take up lots of space, weight and also probably degrade by now, I would like to copy them all to my HDD without user interaction. (1/2)
@natanji Potentially yes. I have no experience how well bluray drives read +10 yo CDs. My guess would be not very well. Hope someone can help you more.
@natanji How many IDE and SATA Ports do you have? But maybe a professional archiver is cheaper than that.
@toxicity Uh yea J didn't really plan on buying optical drives ^^
Also, who in the world still has IDE ports, didn't that die out 5 years ago or more?
@natanji They did die out, but there are still new mainboards with it, for legacy reasons (especially because of optical drives).
My problem is that a) the process is heeeellla slow (see image, 50-100kb/s only) and b) there will always pop up some files that are apparently not readable, which then requires user interaction. I did find a useful script/tool at http://www.perfectautomation.com/solutions/copy-cd-dvd-hard-drive.html that apparently would help with the frequent disk swapping, but a) and b) seem very problematic. Is this potentially because I have a bad optical disk drive in my computer (a Bluray drive in my case)? What can I do?
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