Hellos

[kaliecious]

I am new to this and making some very nice rips with my personal dvd's.. But I do have a delima.. The process of ripping is a timely process and I am on a 1 gig system with a gig of ram but only a 5400 RPM drives.. (UGG):( I have a mother board that has raid ports.. Is this the same thing as scsi w/o me having to go and purchase a scuzi card? I have looked into some 9 gig drives that run either 10,000 or 15,000 rpms... Will this make a differnce in the ammount of time it takes for me to decryt and flask my movies. And cause of the way raid drives work what is the chance for data loss to movies or possibilties of faild flaskings?:D

Ty,
Kaliecious

[sibe]

First thing, SCSI an Raid are two different things. I bet there's enough info for both on the net.

Second, you won't get noticably faster encodings with a faster HD as the encoding process is mostly cpu dependent.

Sibe

[FactorM]

It could speed up the ripping process, but not the encoding itself.

[cofferscuffs]

But the ripping process is firstly limited by the speed of your DVD Drive and it's ATA interface :( - so even if you did have a faster spinning drive it probably wouldn't make a noticable difference.