what hard drive to encode on?

[azurenights]

hi i have two 20 gig hard drives one runs at 5400 rpm while the other is at 7200 rpm. Which drive should i encode from???? Which drive should I dump the final video file on??? thanks

[Kedirekin]

Some things require high drive throughput, like audio encoding, muxing, and authoring.

However, the bottleneck for encoding is usually the processor (in other words, encoding is processor intensive). If you think about it, you're reading a few GB of vobs and writing a couple of GB of mpg over a multi-hour period - almost any hard drive should be able to keep up. Just look at your hard drive light - it should flicker fairly slowly (if it's on solid, you probably need more RAM).

I think you'll find, for encoding, no matter what combination of source and destination drives you use, your encoding speed will be virtaully the same, so it's really up to you.

[LorDHadeS]

I agree with kedriekin, but since you have two hard drives, amke sure the input file is on one and the output on the other. Unless you have 4+ GB of RAM you comp will have to read/write/read/write/read/write so read from one and writing to another with a good IDE control will make you encoding like 200% faster (exaggeration, but you get the idea) and hopefully you will have the hard drives on different IDE channels (maybe a burner and HHD on one then a DVD and HDD on the other) thats the best config that i know, besides adding a lot of ther stuff... gl

Hades:devil:

[Arianos]

Tested LorDHadeS's tip, and I agree 100%.

[azurenights]

what is the difference between a hdd and a hhd?? what does hhd stand for?? hdd stands for hard disk drive right???