Do i need to upgrade for blu-ray back up ?

[solo]

Hi folks
My system at the moment is this
AMD Athlon II x4 620 2.6 MHZ
3 gig ram
ASRock K10N78M mobo
win xp home sp3

When i buy blu-rays i like to back them up to BD25 as movie only using bd rebuilder on default settings and use those to lend out etc but this can take up to 12 hours plus depending on the film size. What i would like to know is would i gain any significant time if i upgraded to one of the following systems and if so how much and which would you recommend or am i just impatient and should stick with what i have

Phenom II X4 965 (3.40ghz, 8mb) Quad Core
ASRock AM3 Motherboard w. Onboard Radeon HD GFX, PCI-Express, Sound & LAN
4gig DDR3 1333Mhz RAM
Windows 7 Premium 64bit
or

Intel core I5 2320 3ghz 6mb cache quad core
4 gig ram
intel HD2000 graphics
mobo unknown
windows 7 home premium 64bit

Thanks in advance for your time and help

[jman98]

I've got an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T and it takes me about 2.5 to 3 hours to fully shrink (entire disc NOT movie only) a BD rip to BD-25 size under Win 7 64 bit.

This really should be somewhat obvious but assuming you sleep about 8 hours a night and go to work in the morning but you could do what I do and just start BDRebuilder when you go to bed and you'd be done by the time you came home from work in the afternoon. There are a heck of a lot of moronic people in the world who absolutely will not leave their computers running unless they are awake and watching them but if you're not one of those you could just live with it and do it as I suggested which would lead to the least inconvenience on your part instead of paying to upgrade. I work in IT for a living and have for years. Almost all of us IT people leave our home PCs powered on all the time. Leveraging your PC to do work for you while you're asleep or away from home is just a smart thing to do.

[solo]

Thanks jman98, i usually do that, just start it up around 7pm and leave it to run over night, i do tend to shut it down when not in use but this is just the scrooge in me, trying to save money on power thats the idea on cutting down on the time it takes, at least thats my excuse

[jagabo]

Use faster settings in bdrebuilder. I use x264 directly with the veryfast preset at CRF 18 and --bframes 2 and --ref 3. On my i5 2500K a 90 minute movie takes about 60 minutes to encode. The difference in quality and file size between veryfast and veryslow (~10 times slower) is very small.

[fritzi93]

Yeah, if you use the High Speed BD25 setting in BDRB (one pass), it'll go a helluva lot faster. I get more than 3.6x encoding speed.

[solo]

Hi, Just want to thank everyone who replied, a great help which led to a greater improvement time wise. I always thought the high speed BD25 option would be at the expense of quality, i now know this is wrong, i have tried several back ups which have taken 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours and i am happy with the end results so thanks to you lot i have saved some money. thanks again

[dragonkeeper]

Hi, Just want to thank everyone who replied, a great help which led to a greater improvement time wise. I always thought the high speed BD25 option would be at the expense of quality, i now know this is wrong, i have tried several back ups which have taken 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours and i am happy with the end results so thanks to you lot i have saved some money. thanks again

You can increase spped further by changing the subme parameter default is 7, i find 2 to be acceptable for most content (comedy, drama, romance and the likes) and 4 or 5 to be better for content with fast moving scenes (action movies mostly)

[TBoneit]

I've got an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T and it takes me about 2.5 to 3 hours to fully shrink (entire disc NOT movie only) a BD rip to BD-25 size under Win 7 64 bit.

This really should be somewhat obvious but assuming you sleep about 8 hours a night and go to work in the morning but you could do what I do and just start BDRebuilder when you go to bed and you'd be done by the time you came home from work in the afternoon. There are a heck of a lot of moronic people in the world who absolutely will not leave their computers running unless they are awake and watching them but if you're not one of those you could just live with it and do it as I suggested which would lead to the least inconvenience on your part instead of paying to upgrade. I work in IT for a living and have for years. Almost all of us IT people leave our home PCs powered on all the time. Leveraging your PC to do work for you while you're asleep or away from home is just a smart thing to do.

My computers are off when I'm not using them, doesn't make me moronic either. My Financial laptop is is used 1 to 2 hours a month. Why leave it running with the SSD boot drive it loads fast.

My desktop gets used at most 5 days a month, once again why leave it running. The servers here at work run 24/7 as does the two POS systems. They're running so the owner can remote in at night. My workstation(s) are off at night and Sunday. Not needed so why run em.......

AT home my D/T is set to turn on when power is applied. So with one flip of the power strip switch it turns on, the externals turn on and so forth. A minute later everything is ready to use. Yes a Decent UPS is used and a cheapo power strip to switch the AC.

I throw the switch on my Media player and it's external drives when it isn't being used once or twice a week.

I look at it that this way, you can disagree of course.

Why waste the electric, why expose the equipment to surges and blips in the power? The player fan runs all the time as does it's internal drive.

My DVRs and Hard drive equipped recorder do stay powered on so that the timers can function. I also unpower the external on the DVR since it gets used approx. twice a month. I do not see any upside to leavening everything powered and running all the time with my usage schedule.

When I was using the P4 3Ghz It ran days at a time batch encoding for example. Now I can do in a few hours what used to take days, on my day off and use the computer at the same time since it has plenty of speed..

If I'd gone slower and cheaper on my last build the savings in parts would be lost to the extra Electricity used running it around the clock encoding

Homeowners that never turn off their computers and click everything are why there are so many botnets. Turn it off and it isn't bott'ed while off. I get computers in all the time where I hear it's been slow for a while. When do I get it? when it takes minutes for every mouse click.

I believe that it is better for the average computer owner to turn them off.

Cheers

[dragonkeeper]

I use to agree with your logic then they created suspend mode. I have 5 PCs at home and i'm able to get on any one of them to do what i need at a moments glance. I prefer the convenience over the few dollars a month saved. And if i see activity on a PC that no one has been on i a while I would assume there is a bot running (not that has ever happened). My wife learned her lesson about click everything she sees when she got one of those roge antivirus programs and i made her go about the long way of cleaning the system. But to each his own, do what works for you.

[TBoneit]

Part of my reasoning is I get them in for repair after every bad storm in the area. Quite often I hear the power went on and off a few times and the computer is dead.

Quite often these are the same people that come in crying about their data, Have the whole family using the same computer and use it in their small business. Not to mention viruses.

I try to explain to them use your business/financial computer only for that. No browsing around on the web, Only one user etc.

If they saw the hard drive light going when they were not using it and the network activity on the router going crazy it wouldn't mean a thing. When I see the computer it is so infested it takes up to 1/2 hour or more to get to the desktop.

One computer I fixed I remember he said his girlfriend kept trying to open an email attachment and Norton kept stopping her. So if you guessed she turned off the Norton and opened the attachment, you guessed right. 1/2 hour later he says the computer was unusable.

MY brother didn't listen and lost his monitor to a storm. Now he powers down when he hears the first rumble of thunder and then flips the AC switch on the power strip for his whole system.

For these reasons I suggest the average user should power off. By power off I mean shut down and remove the AC when not in use.

I use a single core AMD Turion(?) laptop w/Windows7 that starts in a minute to everything loaded. I attribute that to 3Gb memory and a SSD boot drive. I use that for financial only, maybe 30 minutes a month. SSD since I wanted snappy.

The Dual core Toshiba is of course faster. My I7 Desktop is my main machine and things load very fast there too. The only non SSD boot drive computer in the house is a old Win98 computer.