IfoEdit speed

[dogman-x]

What’s the best upgrade to increase IfoEdit speed?

I’ve backed up about 70 DVDs to DVD-R in the last 40 days. So far and the only real time issue has been waiting for IfoEdit. Yes, ReMPEG2 takes way longer, but most of the titles that that I backup fit on DVD-R without transcoding, and for the ones that do ReMPEG2 is typically an overnight type operation, so I don’t have to wait for it.

Right now my system looks like this:
1 GHz AMD Duron Processor
256 MB PC133 Memory
45 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
Windows 98SE

Right now IfoEdit seems to take around 15-40 minutes to get through a set of VOBs (depending on the size).

Would upgrading to 1 Gigabyte of PC133 memory help? Is the hard drive speed the limiting factor? I’ve seen on other posts that IfoEdit runs faster on NTFS than FAT32.

Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.

[mpucoder]

Disk speed is a very large factor, after all, you are going to read and write over 4GB of data. But transfer speed and rotational latency aren't very important if you have only one drive, you'll spend most of your time repositioning the head. Not only is this slow, but it stresses the drive.
Get a second drive, preferrably ATA-100 or ATA-133, 7200RPM. Read from one, write to the other.
Putting the second drive on a different IDE channel (buy an expander card if needed) would help, but not as much as having 2 drives.
Put the source files on the newer drive - this is because it will most likely have a larger read-ahead buffer.