Mikee

I recently bought a netbook solely to use for itunes library and to surf the net of an evening.
It's doing a good job but i've got 35gig of music to download and the external drive I bought from Ebay takes bloody ages to download a CD- about 5 mins per disc.
Is there a drive at a reasonable price that would download discs quicker or is it more to do with my netbooks vital statistics?!

I know virtually nowt about computers so be gentle peeps!