I've been having some zesty issues with CD reading.
My modern machine has two older optical drives. One started to give up the ghost, so I bought a new one, and noticed I was getting weird noisy CD rips. The old drives tend to get correct results when using software that references the AccurateRip database; the new one was off. Even playing audio CDs directly in Windows Media Player is noisy.
So I bought three units of another model (~$8 each used) that had a good reputation. None of them get appropriate results either.
Four drives all incapable of reading audio CDs reliably seems a bit iffy.
My modern machine has two older optical drives. One started to give up the ghost, so I bought a new one, and noticed I was getting weird noisy CD rips. The old drives tend to get correct results when using software that references the AccurateRip database; the new one was off. Even playing audio CDs directly in Windows Media Player is noisy.
So I bought three units of another model (~$8 each used) that had a good reputation. None of them get appropriate results either.
Four drives all incapable of reading audio CDs reliably seems a bit iffy.