rip/shrink/burn speed

[t3t3]

I have the following system
P4 1.6ghz 1024MB
NEC 1300 (flashed 1.08)
Samsung x16DVD ROM (F04 firmware)

I have 2x120MB Seagate 7200rpm disks in RAID 0 config (win xp pro)
DMA enabled / all spyware/virus checked.

It takes approx 15mins to RIP using DVD decrypter
40mins to shrink in DVD shrink
15/20mins to burn via CopyToDVD.

Is this time normal to burn a DVD9. what performance does everyone get with there system configs ?
Any suggestions on how i can gett better performance.?

The partitions i rip to/shrink/burn is on a RAID0 stripeset.

Also - I can only seem to burn at x2 using RITEKG04 media via copytodvd.

Any suggestions.
Thanks

[soundforbjt]

15/20 mins to burn would be 4x.

1x-58 mins

2x-28 mins

4x-15 mins

8x- 8 mins

Your times seem right for your system.

[OhhPapi]

Yeah, I agree with his burn time being at 4x. His encoding process with shrink seems to be taking a bit too long though. Hmm.......

[marclile]

40 minutes to shrink doesn't seem too bad. assuming that he is doing a deep analysis... the deep analysis takes about 20 minutes by itself.

[t3t3]

Thanks for the confirmation - it must be a error in the logfile in CopyToDVD as it always says burning at x2 speed.

Also it takes 40mins+ to shrink a dvd without deep analysis. with deep analysis it takes 90mins.

is my system just too slow - or can my figures be improved without a hardware change ?

[marclile]

well... 90 minutes w/deep analysis is probably a little long. the only thing in your hardware that might be slowing it down is your processor. my machine is kind of the same as yours. i have a gig of ram and 2 hard drive setup in raid 0, and a 16x dvdrom. the only difference is i have a 2.8 P4...

[t3t3]

marcile,
i thought it may have to do with my HD setup.
what sort of performance do you get on you RAID0 drives ?
my performance varies alot from the diff partitions could this be the problem?

c: drive (6GB) - simple volume - 20MB/s write - 200MB/s read
d: drive (4GB)- striped - 22MB/s write - 440MB/s read
e: drive (20GB) - striped - 21MB/s write - 20MB/s read
f: drive (40GB) - striped - 19MB/s write - 19MB/s read

i tried shrinking to e: and f: and the time taken to shrink is similar.
Both e: anf f: have been formatted new so no defrags probs exist.
i dont understand why ?

[Hardcoreruss]

Sounds about right to me.

[marclile]

t3t3,

well... i wouldn't really compare my raid volume to yours because i have two 10,000 rpm sata western digital drives stripped, so they are pretty fast.

if the deep analysis is taking a long time, that wouldn't be your hard drives anyway, i wouldn't think. that's mainly the cpu doing that.

the analysis takes only about 15 - 20 minutes on my system. how long does just the deep analysis take on yours?

[t3t3]

deep analysis takes around 90mins on my pc. i thought it may have to do with writing the files to hard disk that may be taking along time.
on a slightly different note - why is my different partitions getting different performance speeds. my c: drive seems to be very quick buts its only on a simple volume. my d: drive is the fastest which is on a stripe. my other volumes are on a stripe aswell but they have no where near the performance of the d: drive. and these volumes are newly created so the volumes are pretty clean with little defrag.
the only difference between the d: drive and the e: f: drives is the size of volume.
any ideas/thoughts.
thanks

[offline]

the only difference between the d: drive and the e: f: drives is the size of volume.

check cluster size

[johns0]

If you are using dvdshrink 1.4 do you have enable overlapped I/O checked in preferences?That will speed up the proccess.It takes me about 40 minutes to rip and do deep analysis.

[Jayhawk]

The Shrink times (without Deep) are too long at 40 minutes. My Decrypter times are 15 minutes, my Shrink times are 15-20 minutes, and my burn times are 15 at 4X.

I don't have a raid setup but I rip to C: then Shrink to D: and burn from there. All my drives are on different channels and are all masters. My drives are 7200 (Maxtor FAT32 and Seagate NTFS). My burner is a Plextor 708A. I'm using Shrink 1.4 and lately have been using that to do the rip, encode, and burn with Nero. Entire process is around 30 minutes or less but that's with the Plextor burning at 8X on Verbatim 4X discs.

Your processor shouldn't be that much of a problem, especially if you're not doing anything else (playing games, etc.). Mines a P4 2.4 and I also have 1gig memory. Assuming your are not using deep analysis, I suspect the raid and or channel configuation.

Just my thoughts.