Hi all,
There isn't an actual topic area of HD performance or storage tweaking etc in general so I figured I would post here.
My issue is this: I tend to do many things at once on my computer and in that regard they are, what I assume, very hardrive/read/write intensive, if I can use that expression.
For my work, I will be at any time encoding or decoding video in the background, but at the same time also maybe editing some HTML, couple of instances of firefox open, email and at least 3 or 4 files which are getting rared/unrared in the background for storage or burning and maybe other stuff like file integrity checks using quickpar. I use WinXp and Xp64, have 4 GB of RAM.
I went from an AMD64 3000 to X2-3800 to then an X2-4800 and then an e6600 to an e6850 to a Q6600. Even with the quad core, the system totally chugs I am dealing with a few 2 GB files, and encoding in the background and running quickpar.
I have 2 x 500GB drives, and 1 x terabyte drive (all SATA). The OS is on one of the 500 GB drive. The files I work on are all on the other 500GB drive and I usually do all the decoding, work, compressing etc to the same drive. I then move what is complete for burning or storage to the 1 TB drive for others that might need to access.
Is this inefficient? Is there a better setup? RAID maybe or would I still be stuck with the issue that I am reading and writing to the same drive in multiple instances with huge files? I would love to hear some suggestions? I mean at any time I can stop the 4 of 5 things I am doing and just run one.. and it screams fast.. then as it?s done I do another. Heck by doing this I am actually faster than waiting for 5 things to finish.
There isn't an actual topic area of HD performance or storage tweaking etc in general so I figured I would post here.
My issue is this: I tend to do many things at once on my computer and in that regard they are, what I assume, very hardrive/read/write intensive, if I can use that expression.
For my work, I will be at any time encoding or decoding video in the background, but at the same time also maybe editing some HTML, couple of instances of firefox open, email and at least 3 or 4 files which are getting rared/unrared in the background for storage or burning and maybe other stuff like file integrity checks using quickpar. I use WinXp and Xp64, have 4 GB of RAM.
I went from an AMD64 3000 to X2-3800 to then an X2-4800 and then an e6600 to an e6850 to a Q6600. Even with the quad core, the system totally chugs I am dealing with a few 2 GB files, and encoding in the background and running quickpar.
I have 2 x 500GB drives, and 1 x terabyte drive (all SATA). The OS is on one of the 500 GB drive. The files I work on are all on the other 500GB drive and I usually do all the decoding, work, compressing etc to the same drive. I then move what is complete for burning or storage to the 1 TB drive for others that might need to access.
Is this inefficient? Is there a better setup? RAID maybe or would I still be stuck with the issue that I am reading and writing to the same drive in multiple instances with huge files? I would love to hear some suggestions? I mean at any time I can stop the 4 of 5 things I am doing and just run one.. and it screams fast.. then as it?s done I do another. Heck by doing this I am actually faster than waiting for 5 things to finish.
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