best external drive for ripping CDs

I got one of these off OWC. Built like a tank, and connected to my iMac via USB C

They are mostly all pick-one-of-‘em cheap builds with an eventual lock to fail. They do a yeoman duty until then with their quirky noises cuz there is no quality power supply supply on a USB powered external unit, As pointed out, there are a relative few that are anecdotally reported as a better build than the cheap masses.

The CD ripping programs do their own internal cross checks from original to properly ripped copies, if there is a problem on the ripped digital copy , you know it. That’s not a worry point.

If you are progressing past a silver disc ripped copy and onto copies made to a large mass storage on an external HD or a NAS drive,… then Think SAMSUNG or an equivalent better quality build OEM brand and also  think SSD HD if possible.

If so, I would spend more attention to securing only a quality build external storage medium. The cheap POS units have reported extra “noise”, a longer load access time, A more irritating jitter on reading and playback, and a lock to fail earlier.

DBPowerAmp tells you if the CDs were accurately ripped.  If so, no other CD drive will make for improved sound.