Tried searching for this on the forum but to no avail. Anyway, glad to say that I'm awaiting delivery of the empeg, and I've been boning up on the ripping and encoding stuff.

Very annoyed with the ripping capabilities of my CD-RW unit which is averaging x8 speed (Mitsumi 4804, which is faster than my DVD Toshiba unit, go figure). What's annoying is that it was advertised to do at least double that. What I would like to get is a IDE CD-Rom unit which is going to be exceptional at the ripping process. Any recommendations and proven specs?

It may seem like overkill, but initially I've got a lot of albums to rip, and it will be recycled for use into another computer in the near future.