I’ve never ripped CDs or DVDs before for any reason and am curious how this works since I have some stuff I wanna see about backing up but am nervous about ruining the disc. I’ve tried looking this up, but every time I do, I obviously am searching for the wrong thing because I have never found the info I’m looking for.

  • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    a 2x drive

    I lived in a non-anglophone country when those were a thing, how do you pronounce that? “Twice” drive? “Two ex” drive? “Double speed” drive?

    • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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      8 months ago

      “Double speed” and “two ex” both work, however it’s much, much more common to say “two ex” because of the fact that a lot of modern disc drives can read up to 52x for CDs.

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      8 months ago

      You got no luck with me, I am not a native English speaker. In English I would call this “two ex” but now that I think of it in German we would say “two times”, or at least thats what I and my friends called it.

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        8 months ago

        Both of those are fine. As a native English speaker I literally say both of those depending on my mood.