Perfomance and RAID0

[CrazyPortuguese]

Right now I've a XP200+ € 2200+ and a Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB 7200rpm, and I'm thinking in getting a new board with RAID and a new barrcuda do put has RAID 0 (striping) so the question is would that give me any advantage in dvd2svcd?

[UltimateDBZ]

Hard drive's impact on performance has been discussed before, and the general conclusion is that to most extents (given you have a hard drive made in the last couple years), it won't make any difference if you have a huge cache, RAID, or 15000 RPM SCSI. The reason for this is because video encoding relies almost 100% on the CPU, and the hard drive is not being used the entire time, since the CPU is much slower than the data that needs to be written.

I would still suggest you use a RAID configuration because of the overall improvements you'll see in other applications, and in Windows, but it won't help your encoding times.

[CrazyPortuguese]

Thanks :) In this case I will have to think it well since I've a Seagate wich itsnt that good with RAID and I dont have a motheboard with RAID but I plan to get one soon :)

[prom3theus]

Like the previous post said, I also didn't get much improvement with things like encoding when I switched to a raid 0 but I noticed a much smoother video capture, if you do that.

It's nice to be able to buy two fairly cheap 5400 rpm drives and get better throughput than with a more expensive 7200 rpm drive.