Best HD setup for High Definition Video encoding >>????

[No One Realy]

I asume some sort of raid. Dont want to go overboard just want to use
the 2 drives and maybe 80 gigs each. 2 7200 Sata 2 drives would be
nice.

What sort of encrease in encoding speed should i expect if any. iam
going to add an Amd X2 3800 dual core cpu in as well.

Thanks.

/ps Maybe Dual Raided Raptors would be better. If i set them up would
they need to be the primary drives on the system or could they be used
as a raid as the secondary drives. And have a single drive for OS for
saftey. And would i still egt the raid speed ect ???

Thanks.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I asume some sort of raid. Dont want to go overboard just want to use
the 2 drives and maybe 80 gigs each. 2 7200 Sata 2 drives would be
nice.

What sort of encrease in encoding speed should i expect if any.

Unless you have parallelised encoding software, probably none at all.
Encoding is a linear task (with regard to disk access). Most modern
disks should be fast enough.

iam
going to add an Amd X2 3800 dual core cpu in as well.

Same as above. Unless you encode pretty low quality, I expect
your bottleneck will be the CPU. Video-editing is something
different. For that you want lots of space and low-latency drives,
i.e. high RPM. Unraided may also be faster than raided.

I would advise that you get the system, but with just one disk at the
moment and then do some benchmarking. If you get significantly
less than 100% CPU use during encoding, optimising the disks
may help. Otherwise it will not.

Also if your encoding software does not support dual-CPUs
(dual core is pretty much the same as dual CPU to software),
get the fastest single-core you can afford instead of the dual
core.

Arno

Thanks.