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  • mill
    Im Off To See The Wizard
    • Oct 2005
    • 1105

    Two Hard Drives

    Im the proud new owner of dvdrebuilder pro,
    Does it benifit any to have you work folder on a different drive then your output folder,as far as speed goes or anyother reason?
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  • katzdvd
    Lord of Digital Video
    Lord of Digital Video
    • Feb 2006
    • 2198

    #2
    Hi mill,
    Im the proud new owner of dvdrebuilder pro,
    Congrats on your new purchase! I keep all my editing audio/video on a drive separate from the OS drive; that way, if the OS would get hit with a nasty virus, etc., my editing data is still safe & sound.

    regards, katz

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    • cynthia
      Super Moderatress
      • Jan 2004
      • 14278

      #3
      You could use drive 1 as the one with the original, drive 2 for the work folder and then put the output folder in drive 1.

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      • mill
        Im Off To See The Wizard
        • Oct 2005
        • 1105

        #4
        Thanks Katzdvd,Thats a good ideal if you keep your movies on your pc for any amount of time but i usally burn mine and delete after completed.
        What i was referring to was i read somewhere ,thats its either faster or easyer on the drive if your not sharing the same cable, but i cant seem to find the thread now.
        Thanks Cynthia,thats what i was referring to, does it make any difference?
        Last edited by mill; 6 Oct 2006, 07:39 AM.
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        • anonymez
          Super Moderator
          • Mar 2004
          • 5525

          #5
          it won't be any faster unless the encoder is outputting frames faster than the single hard disk transfer rate. that'll depend primarily on encoder settings and PC specs, but safe to say in most cases you probably won't see any increase in speed. with something like shrink it's a different story


          edit: silly me, forgot there were separate work and output folders. yes there will be some speed increase from one physical hard disk to the next during this step, but not much i guess, considering how long the encoding process can take
          Last edited by anonymez; 6 Oct 2006, 07:51 AM.
          "What were the things in Gremlins called?" - Karl Pilkington

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          • cynthia
            Super Moderatress
            • Jan 2004
            • 14278

            #6
            But in the stage where it moves the encoded stuff to the final folder it must be some smaller times if you use different drives.

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            • mill
              Im Off To See The Wizard
              • Oct 2005
              • 1105

              #7
              Thank You all
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              • anonymez
                Super Moderator
                • Mar 2004
                • 5525

                #8
                But in the stage where it moves the encoded stuff to the final folder it must be some smaller times if you use different drives.
                forgot about that, see edited post

                are the folder contents modified from from work-->output? if not, a single drive should be faster
                "What were the things in Gremlins called?" - Karl Pilkington

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                • Chewy
                  Super Moderator
                  • Nov 2003
                  • 18971

                  #9
                  frequent use of source and ouput is hard on a single drive

                  doing a fast rip after ripit4me with shrink is murder to a single drive

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                  • jdobbs
                    Digital Video Enthusiast
                    Digital Video Enthusiast
                    • Sep 2004
                    • 324

                    #10
                    You'll usually see a speed increase if the source folder is on a different drive than the working/output folders. That's because both are being accessed at the same time and it can cut down on head movement -- which is the most important factor in hard drive speeds.

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                    • mill
                      Im Off To See The Wizard
                      • Oct 2005
                      • 1105

                      #11
                      Thanks Chewy, i think your the one that first brought it to my attention,about useing two drives but i couldnt find the thread.

                      jdobbs,good stuff, thanks ,installing on both pc went down without a problem.

                      Thanks everone
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                      • Squee77
                        Junior Member
                        Junior Member
                        • Oct 2005
                        • 33

                        #12
                        I like to have another hard drive for something else(store all my dvd backups) seperate from Window's hard drive. Since I do a lot of backuping and editting my hard drive would be fragemented and I don't have to worry about my Window's hard drive to be fragemented and slow my processes.
                        //Amd 64 sock 939 running 2.41ghz rating with 1mb chache
                        //Rosewill 1gb ram, pc3200(ddr 400) unknown timing
                        //Graphic card X1900gt 256mb(sapphire edition)with 400mhz ramdac 1314mhz coreclock
                        //Hard drives(3) 80GB Western digital 7.2k(IDE)2mb cache; 160GB Western digital rpm 7.2k(SATA 1.5GB/s)8mb cache, 320GB Seagate rpm 7.2k(SATA 3.0GB/s) 16mb cache
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                        //HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N(internal dvd burner)

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                        • Chewy
                          Super Moderator
                          • Nov 2003
                          • 18971

                          #13
                          I suggest 2 physical hard drives(on seperate cables/serial or pata) with 3 partitions. The boot drive with a small system partition and a larger data partition. The second drive can be one larger single data partition. What's important is getting permanent(semi) data on these data partitions first, this is what you keep and want defragged. Large video files come and go and are horrible to defrag.

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                          • dontasciime
                            Junior Member
                            Junior Member
                            • Jun 2005
                            • 16

                            #14
                            or try sata drives > ide

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                            • jdobbs
                              Digital Video Enthusiast
                              Digital Video Enthusiast
                              • Sep 2004
                              • 324

                              #15
                              One secret is to remove the files immediately after you burn them (and also emptying them from the Recycle Bin), before processing another DVD. That can help keep it from fragmenting.

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