Hi, A brief history! My wife ( bless her ) downloads movies from the internet. They are always ***.avi. I then get the job of converting them to DVD and burning them to a disc. My old pc took hours! So earlier this year I built a new pc. Abit ABIT AB9 S775 MOBO Intel E6300 Core2Duo now @ 2,8GHz 1GB Corsair TwinX XMS2 PC26400 4.4.4.12 Raptor 36GB This made things a lot better. But it can always be faster….. I now want to do an upgrade but can not determine where the bottleneck is. Do I need more RAM? A faster new Raptor 150GB hard drive? 2 new Raptor 36GB raid0? Faster processor? Quad core? Any help will be great.
Hmm, obviously the raptor was a good choice. In a Raid0 you would see an improvement but I'm not sure exactly how big of a difference it would be. But if you could get that and another gig of RAM it should help out at least a little bit. Edit: But basically going from an .avi to a DVD format is ALWAYS going to take a while.
more RAM will help improve performance 2 drive in a RAID0 array will improve permormance, however, if a HDD fails, you will lose your array, however, if you setup a RAID3 or 4 uses a minimum of 3 HDD, so, if a HDD dies you will not lose you array, you just reple the preferably with 1 identical to the original a bit less than double
Definitely more ram like 2Gb or if you can afford a raptor then you can afford 4GB of ram. I honestly don't think the raptor is worth it because it is way too expensive and yes i know its fast but just get yourself a good hard drive with like 32MB cache with 4GB ram and that would be fine.
On paper it is a bit less than double, but in real life benchmarking it is never that big of a difference.
