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.

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    10 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?

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      10 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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        10 months ago

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

    • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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      10 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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      I’m a native English speaker, and all of the but the first get/were used. “Two times” would also be commonly used (at least where I grew up).

      English is inconsistent as hell, even to native speakers. We are just better at hiding our confusion about it. (Bane’s speech on darkness, from one of the Batcam films, comes to mind)