Will a 7200 RPM HD make my encodings more fastly?

[asturian]

I am buying a 20 GB HDD 7200 RPM to work only with my capture videos for editing, encoding and burning.
That will make, for exemple, the TMPGEnc encodings for my SVCDs more fastly? Shall TMPGEnc and my edition program (Ulead Video Studio 6) installed in the new HDD in my old HD (C ?
I Think that have an additional HDD is a good idea because after editing a video, my HDD stayed very fragmented.

[BJ_M]

nope -- no faster

[bishop]

Your 7200 rpm HD will have a direct effect in capturing. Memory and CPU speed will have a direct effect in encoding.

[energy80s]

The speed of the drive has nothing to do with video encoding. Processor speed alone is the only thing to be concerned with.

[VidGuy]

Actually, that's not 100% true. Seek speed of the drive will have some impact on encoding, especially if you're read and writing to the same drive.
I find a fairly significant speed improvement (~15%) also by reading and writing to/from different drives if DMA is on.

However, processor and memory will give much better speed improvements.

[IonNuke]

I agree with VidGuy cause I tried authoring a the same film several times on a couple of different harddrives that I have.

Of all it finished the fastest on my Seagate Cheetah (only about a few hours). The Maxtor 10GB 5400rpm took like ages....I didn't bother waiting around for it to finish. I went to sleep. The Quantum 7200prm drive chewed up a good 5 or 6 hours converting the files and encoding.

Test system Configs:
Pentium III 933Mhz
512MB RDRAM
- Quantum 30GB FireballLT 7200rpm
- Maxtor Diamond Max 10GB 5400rpm
- Seagate Cheetah SCSI 18.6GB 15,000rpm

Not to mention with the slower 3300rpm drive I had I tried to encode the files to there it went to a crawling halt and then my encoding program just crashed and then everyother program on their crashed in a chain. Except windows. windows didn't crash. (I was expecting windows to go first)

[Nelson37]

Vidguy and IonNuke are absolutely correct. While the hard drive speed difference is not huge, and encoding is primarily processor, drives are repeatedly accessed during encoding, and the difference adds up. Just try transferring 1 gig of data between different types of drives and observe the speed changes; multiple starts and stops (like during encoding) magnify the time required.
It is also well worth using different drives for source and output.

[KingJohn]

Ok, if you have a fast processor, then the hard drive speed might improve things a little. But a slow processor like the P3, wont need the hard drive speed will it !. However its good to have ready when you upgrade the CPU

I encode with less than real time, the hard drive flashes now and then

[Cooly-O]

It is also well worth using different drives for source and output.

Thanks, I'll use this tip.

Sounds like a RAID Hard drive setup will speed things up then. My motherboard can accomodate RAID but with all the file sharing these days I'm opting to just utilize the extra HD space for storage. A RAID HD setup leaves less room for storage, right?

[BJ_M]

a raid 0 (as found on ide raid) will give you twice the size of your smallest drive in the array -- though you should use matched drives ..

it is non redundent - but very fast speed ..