Is using two drives faster for encoding?

[MunDMC]

I'm planning on popping a new hard drive in soon. I'm wondering if, using TMPGEnc, i read the source from one disc and write to a second if things will be faster. I know the bottleneck is usually the CPU speed for encoding, but in this case i'm only using the merge/cut tools, so no real encoding (i.e. AVI to MPG) is taking place.

I'm running dual Athlon MP 1600+'s with 512 DDR RAM,
IBM 60 GXP HDD's (two of them)

Thanks!

[HillJack]

I too run dual-IBM 60Gig drives (spanned together as a single 120Gig NTFS volume). Reading from a drive and writing to a physically separate drive will always be faster than reading/writing a single drive. Since your planning on doing it anyway, there will be no loss, but maybe 1 minute saved at most. If you were debating, I would say don't waste the $$. But you'll try it anyway, so just try it and see what happens

[MunDMC]

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll have two drives anyway, so i'll give it a try. I imagined the time difference would be present, yet relatively insignificant.

[goldfinger]

Hi guys

Both of you are running dual amd, I am planning to buy dual mp1800+ next week.
Is everything working fine with this dual cpu's, or do you experience more crashes than normal?
Is the encoding speed ok?
Doo you have a problem with the cpu's going to warm?

Thanks

[goldfinger]

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[goldfinger]

sorry. about the last posts, dont know what happened

[vitualis]

I'm planning on popping a new hard drive in soon. I'm wondering if, using TMPGEnc, i read the source from one disc and write to a second if things will be faster.

Definitely, especially if your two drives are on separate IDE channels. When doing things like muxing, cutting, etc., the bottleneck is your disc access speed.

Regards.

[nerdfragger]

Yes, it will be significantly faster. I use dual WD400BB's in RAID0 in addition to a 15.3 gig Western Digital capture drive, and it is significantly faster. Also, get tons of RAM (256MB min.), although it will help less than a secondary hard disk.