DVDShrink and SCSI and HyperThreading

[ticrab]

Hi,

I've been using DVDShrink and I love it. I use a Sony DRU510A, firmware 1.0d.
My system was a P4 2.4GHz, Asus P4B533 motherboard, SCSI 2940 controller with a 10K SCSI 18GB drive. Dumping the data to a 5400rpms IDE drive. Movies would take on average 40 minutes to do deep analysis and encoding. Running on Win XP Pro. 512MB of RAM PC2100.

Now I have an Intel 875P chipset board(D875PBZ, high end desktop board). Ram is 2 x 256MB PC3200-400(total at 512MB). CPU is 3.0GHz HyperThreaded. Windows XP Pro clean install. SCSI controller is LSI U160 with a 36GB 15K SCSI drive. It takes now 50 minutes or more?!?!?

Any ideas?

I read the sticky here and did few things. Didn't help much or I couldn't tell the difference. I turned off the HyperThreading feature and now I rip and encode under 35 minutes. So that helped. Doesn't make sense but it helped. Though I read HT can be worse in some case.

Now you are going to tell me "So then keep it turned off!". I'm ok with that. But there is a problem:

I have also a HP laptop ZD7000 with a 1.0GB of RAM. 3.2GHz HyperThreaded enabled. 60GB IDE 5400rpms. Windows XP Pro. DVDRW+/- And I can rip and encode movies in 20 minutes on average. Now, doe THAT make sense anymore??? I am frustrated. Any help is appreciated.

I used consistently DVDShrink 3.0 beta 5 on each system.

[ticrab]

Wanted to add this:
We run an accounting software at work on my servers. The data is on a IDE based server. When we moved it to a SCSI based server, things were way slower. And we also got data corruption. The accounting software company told us that their software doesn't "like" SCSI, something to do with the way SCSI write to the drive versus IDE. Rolled back to IDE and everything was fine. Am I running into the same type of problem here?

[panoplos]

The SCSI drives they need offen defragment.
Try to defrag the drive first and you will see big different.
I have Ultra 320 SCSI with 34 GB drive and when my disc is defrag it takes only 10 -15 minutes to finish.

[ticrab]

Thanks, I will try that.
If none of this works, I am going to try serial ATA. I swear, when I knew I had the choice between a Serial ATA drive and a 15K 36GB SCSI drive, I thought SCSI was going to be better.