Speed up encoding with 2 drives?

[Michelle]

If you have your source on one drive and encode to another drive it should speed up the process. I'm wondering if someone can give an idea of how much difference it makes. I'd consider getting a second drive if the difference was significant.

[RabidDog]

encoding is highly cpu bound .. hdd speed makes bugger all difference.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Spend your money on a faster CPU.

[vhelp]

Hi Michelle,

One more thing to consider there..

If you encode over a network, it will approx double your encoding time.
I have my sources accross my network (two pc's via built-in LAN) and I
encode my 2nd pc's .AVI files while on my main pc. This slows up a lot of
HD activities. If I were to encode my sources directly on my main pc's HD,
things would be that much faster. Maybe I'm exagerating a little, but it
sures feels like I'm waiting forever - most, if not all my sources are over
a LAN HD.
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If you have LAN turned on in your BIOS, and you don't have two pc's connectd,
you might benefit somehow, by DISABLING it in the BIOS. Might help out in
the capturing anyways

-vhelp 2083