What Hardware is quicker to encode on?????

[wgerrish]

IDE or SCSI or FireWire??

Thanks

[bugster]

SCSI is probably quicker, but to be honest, its processor speed that is the important factor. Hard Drive speed has very little performance impact on encoding.

[Cobra]

I doubt that hard drive speed has any bearing on encoding performance - there's no way you'll be encoding faster than 40-50MB/sec. The only way I can see that it might affect encoding speed is when your PC asks for the next chunk of data to be read or written - a slower drive will add a few milliseconds on to the seek time. You stand to lose a few seconds, but that's all.

Basically, it doesn't matter.

[waheed]

i agree with bugster and Cobra. You need to look at the bottleneck and work from there. A faster processor and more memory will be more beneficial than a faster drive.

[wgerrish]

Excellent thanks guys!

[edDV]

And more memory does not always increase performance. For instance, Mainconcept shows only small improvement from 256MB to 512MB and effectively no improvement above that. 1GB and 512MB produced identical encode times for me.

It's all about CPU speed.