RAID O make things faster???

[DVD]

my motherboard is can do raid 0 and 1..
now if i get another hardrive and set it to raid 0(the fast one)
Do you think this will make my ripping times and encodding times faster!!???
if not i wont bother!!!

 

[Fulminant]

best thing to do, copy a dvd is to go and copy it to a folder not using any programs , takes approx. 10 minutes.

 

[DVD]

yeah but what about encoding!!
does your method work??

 

[Fulminant]

it will not make it faster I have tried that on my other computer, seen no diffrrence..

 

[scarecrow]

RAID makes things more complex, and certainly not faster. It's main purpose is mirroring your critical partitions to save your arse in case of system failure. If you are not running a server machine, you might painlessly ignore it.

 

[LTR12101B]

The major issue in encoding is the PROCESSOR performance.

The major issue in ripping is usually the speed of the DVD-ROM - if you have the luxury of a second hard drive, it may be more effective if used ONLY as a ripping drive.

Any ripping/recording process generates a signifigant sequential througput, and while the interleaving of RAID 0 can help the maximum value, a sustained and uninterfered with performance is more important.

If the available throughput from/to the HD is more than the DVD-ROM - increasing it will not make much difference.

 

[DVD]

The major issue in encoding is the PROCESSOR performance.

The major issue in ripping is usually the speed of the DVD-ROM - if you have the luxury of a second hard drive, it may be more effective if used ONLY as a ripping drive.

Any ripping/recording process generates a signifigant sequential througput, and while the interleaving of RAID 0 can help the maximum value, a sustained and uninterfered with performance is more important.

If the available throughput from/to the HD is more than the DVD-ROM - increasing it will not make much difference.

ok i see how the dvd makes the speed for the reading and writing, but once you have all the dvd files in your HDDD and open them to shrink and re-encode surely the reading off the files and the re-writting(shrunk and enconded) of the files into another folder would be faster on raid

 

[bionic]

As LTR12101B said, the transcoding(re-encoding) by itself is mostly dependent on cpu power. You will need a very powerfull cpu to be able to push the limits of a modern 7200 hdd(frames per sec, etc). When opening\saving and moving big files(authoring) i find raid-0 to be faster(also dependent on your stripe size. Lower - high transfer rates\lower access. Higher - lower transfer rates\faster access). As a side note, testing have shown that pata ide hdds connected to raid controllers and sata controllers (but not configured in raid) are faster than normal pata ide(not much though).