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)
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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@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).
@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.