Strange.
At my home PC I have two DVD-R drives (Pioneer, A03, A05.) I do all my ripping at home. The A03 only gives me about 2.5x speed. A05 gives about a 6x. Decided I had some free time at work while having other windows open, I would let a few CD's rip away. I have a A06 (Also Pioneer) and an OLD DVD-RAM drive.
The A06 rips horribly. The tinest scratch can't be read thru. Max speed is LESS than the A03 at home.
The DVD-RAM, which it never occured to me to even use until after the first few CDs rips at, like 20x!! WTF?

Why all the kookiness with the Pioneer drives? I mean, they're the best on making DVD-Rs and such.. Jeez.

Me.